Pandora's The Best Radio on Radio, But Herein Lies Their Biggest Problem

September 10, 2008

Pandora is a great service for listening to music, but I think their main strength may be their biggest weakness. Music fans have a ton of different of places to get music entertainment. TV, in the form of music videos, inserted into programming, and in movies. Fans can listen to the radio in the car, [...]

Analyzing Startup ROI in the Music Space: Lala vs Grooveshark vs we7

July 2, 2008

Working at Grooveshark, we’ve long been the underdog in the startup music game, and I definitely don’t think things have changed for us, but after 2 years of hard work, we’re finally starting to see some of the fruits of our labor. Rhapsody is spending $50 million on their new DRM-free campaign to try to [...]

Rob Thomas Made An Appearance in the Grooveshark Office, In Other News..

June 17, 2008

So I guess this whole Grooveshark thing is starting to pan out, eh? Well, Rob Thomas felt it necessary to stop by Gainesville on his way to Jacksonville today, and got the obligatory tour, complete with mention of ping-pong room, and pieces of chair. Please excuse Rob’s expression, I think he was as surprised to [...]

Grooveshark Lite is Rocking !

April 19, 2008

On our trip up to Durham, NC we’ve been listening to Grooveshark Lite the whole way and it is absolutely amazing ! I have no qualms claiming that Grooveshark Lite is the best product in its class if you want to listen to music for free. For those of you who haven’t checked it out [...]

Creating a Legal Alternative to the Illegal Networks

April 19, 2008

Exclusives are the common trade practice for most industries to help companies get a competitive advantage over others. AT&T and the iPhone, the Super Bowl on FOX, Madonna on Verizon, etc. Now for the first two, the exclusives make sense. You can’t use an iPhone on Verizon and you can’t watch the Super Bowl on [...]

Grooveshark: On Our Way to Durham, NC for CED in an RV

April 16, 2008

Yes, we are actually in an RV driving up i-95 to Durham, NC for the CED Venture Conference April 16-18. We’re going to be presenting on Thursday at 2:30pm, so if you’re in the area, be sure to stop by and say hi: By the way, if you haven’t yet, check out Grooveshark Lite and [...]

FayerWayer Features Grooveshark, and the Servers Go Down..

March 30, 2008

FayerWayer, one of the top Spanish technology blogs, did a feature on Grooveshark yesterday and it sent our servers down (for about 15 minutes) and also their servers for a similar period of time. It turns out the reason our site went down wasn’t actually a server issue, our load was less than 50%, but [...]

Startup: Mac vs PC …Simply Amazing

March 25, 2008

Yet another great Mac vs PC ad: Anyone have any other creative ads to share?

Grooveshark: Will iPhone SDK Allow Grooveshark Music Apps?

March 20, 2008

We’re really interested in the iPhone Fund that Kleiner has created and we’ve done some work on a number of prototypes, however, we’re still waiting to hear word from Apple and Steve J on whether or not music-related apps will be allowed on the iPhone.. It reasons that Apple makes more money on the iPhone [...]

Grooveshark: Web 2.0 Music The Way It Should Be Done

March 19, 2008

I put together a cool introduction to Grooveshark this past week and am in the final stages of production on it and wanted to share it with you: I was really intrigued by the web 2.0 …the machine video and wanted to create a similar video showcasing Grooveshark. Let me know your comments…