December 2012
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2012 Concert Trends →
Live Nation’s Fan Meter shows Americans getting more passionate about concerts. Click to download.
July 2012
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North of Where We Are Today: Live Nation Labs in...
By Eric Garland
[Update: Rexly duderino Joel Resnicow has written a better and more informative announcement. Please read his first.]
Tonight I’m feeling reflective, on the eve of the announcement that we have acquired iPhone social music star Rexly and that the Rexly team will establish our new San Francisco presence, Live Nation Labs North, or LN² as it’s already known around here....
May 2012
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3 Insights into the Future of Geosocial Music
The geosocial revolution (see Foursquare and Facebook Places) promises to connect us to the places we visit and the people who frequent them, while helping us discover music in new ways, too.
Over the past year, a number of startups have released location-based music apps—each aspiring to revolutionize the way we listen to music.
Wahwah.fm, the most innovative of them, enables users to listen to...
March 2012
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Mainstream Fanatic: Songza Takes Music Playlists...
Every year, dozens of startups attempt the impossible: to make their product mainstream. In the music sector, this proves to be a particularly challenging task, because startups are often founded by fanatics who are unlike the casual listeners they’re targeting with their product.
The team at Songza, a music streaming service, faces this hurdle.
The company presents itself as a destination for...
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Live Nation Labs Fund
Photo by Kris Krug
By Ethan Kaplan, Product
There are two ways of looking at how businesses work together.
A common one in large companies is akin to a dance. Two big (or one big, one small) companies meet on the dancefloor, do a short dance, bow and be done with it. The only thing paid attention to is the dance, not how they got there, nor what they do afterward—and a press release about...
WatchToday, a shark invaded Live Nation Labs.
February 2012
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Advertising Indie: How Earbits Helps Bands Find...
It’s easy for bands to distribute their music, but hard to market it. They can pay to get their songs in the right places - iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify - but it’s unclear how to get them heard by the right people. Earbits, a Los Angeles-based startup, aspires to turn their radio service into an ad platform where bands can buy airtime and gain exposure for their songs and upcoming live...
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Culture is a Product
A year ago I walked out of the Warner Bros. Records building, put a box in my car and drove home. I left with a collection of memories, but also a sense of unfinished business that I intended to keep in mind when I started my next venture.
When it started becoming apparent what my next venture would be, I sat down and started writing.
I proposed this question to myself:
Given a green...
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I Just Want To Tell You Five Things...
From: Joe Fleischer <joe@bigchampagne.com> Date: Tues, 31 Jan 2012 18:23:06 -0800 To: Team Champagne Subject: FW: I just want to tell you five things
#humblebrag
TL/DR
From: Eric Garland <eric@bigchampagne.com> Date: Tues, 31 Jan 2012 18:21:18 -0800 To: Joe Fleischer Subject: I just want to tell you five things
1. You should try to be born an anesthesiologist.
2. It’s...
January 2012
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Welcoming Jacob Evans
Since we have been heads down hacking, we are just now getting to introducing the team.
Many years ago, I got a call from the head of Nonesuch records, asking that I let the son of his childhood friend intern with me. I said “sure,” since Bob Hurwitz is and was and will remain one of my favorite people in this business.
I had no clue that this intern (who was all of 19) could do...
Welcome...
Live Nation Labs is a small division of a big company. We build connections between passionate fans and live experiences. We make great products. And mischief. #disruptfromwithin
We are: music meets technology. We operate like a lean startup. We don’t have a lot of adult supervision.
We study Eric Ries and pirate metrics, for fun. We’re veteran dot commers and experienced...
December 2011
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