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 rather [...]

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 than [...]

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…

Grooveshark: Weedshare Founder Endorses the Grooveshark Model (indirectly)

March 19, 2008

John Beezer, the co-founder of Weedshare, whose company is now on the auction block is giving up some suggestions on how they should have done Weedshare for the potential purchasers, and the ideas he’s floating sound awfully similar to the model we’re building at Grooveshark.
Here’s a sample of his suggestions from p2pnet:
Lesson learned: even benign [...]

Grooveshark: Self-Made Artist, Long-Tail Legend Birdmonster CHOOSES to Sign a Record Deal

March 17, 2008

In an interesting turn, one of the most successful (relatively speaking) self-made, unsigned artists, Birdmonster signs a record label deal with Fader, as in the magazine turned A&R.

Chris Anderson of The Long Tail fame has a great interview with him in which he asks a number of interesting questions, especially considering on his last interview, [...]

Startup: Spiralfrog Renegotiates Loan Term — Buys Them 1 More Year

March 17, 2008

After Spiralfrog posted that 10million loan application, I thought things couldn’t get any worse for them, but it turns out there might be a silver lining to their cloud. They’ve been able to re-negotiate the terms on their loan that required them to pay $7 million back on this day, today.

Renegotiating the terms on the [...]

Startup: Looking for a Way to Market your Startup? Say Hello to VCWare.com

March 12, 2008

Welcome to VCWear.com where you can buy tshirts with funny sayings only VCs will find …funny. The shirts are apparently a big hit at SXSW and founder Andrew Hyde (founder of StartupWeekend) has been wearing his all around Austin.

VCWear is a classic business case of how to market your business in the web 2.0 world. [...]

Grooveshark: Grooveshark's Label Analytics, Moneyshark, Gets Previewed on Read/Write/Web

March 11, 2008

Per our team at SXSW, Grooveshark got a mention on Read/Write/Web today regarding our Moneyshark label analytics service.

Moneyshark is designed as a platform allowing labels/artists/bands get an inside look on their content’s performance, whether it be song sales, streams, search activity, etc. The latter few areas are currently in development, and our first release just [...]

Grooveshark: How We Make Our Startup Successful

March 9, 2008

Taken from a post by Don Dodge on How to make your startup successful, I thought it would be interesting to see how we’re doing here at Grooveshark.

Here are Don’s 5 points:

Build a product or service people want
For every user to our site, they stay an average of 10 minutes. Compare this to Facebook, with [...]

Startup: Grooveshark's 10 Tips for Saving Boatloads of Cash aka Bootstrapping

March 8, 2008

After reading the Calacanis post, I thought it would be interesting to share Grooveshark’s tips for saving money on the cheap… (I hope our investors enjoy this)

1. Not really so much as a way to save money, but it’s a good way to set up a culture: Make everyone accountable for everyone else. At Grooveshark, [...]

Grooveshark: AJAX Chat Room for Developer Discussions, Take II

March 4, 2008

Apparently the Meebo app is designed for people to send ME instant messages, so not so useful for a group chat application.
This is a little better, but has some annoying ads on it…

Grooveshark: Testing Meebo Chat Room

March 4, 2008

We’re trying to set up a chat room to use on our blog for developer campfire sessions, here we go…

Grooveshark: Help Fix Album Art in iTunes

February 19, 2008

One of my biggest complaints about files that aren’t tagged correctly is that they don’t carry the correct album art. iTunes has a built-in system, but often it has trouble when songs are missing apostrophes or slightly mis-spelled, and over time, your library becomes cluttered with random tracks that have no album art and just [...]

Startup: Grooveshark Hooks Up The University of Florida for Valentine's Day

February 14, 2008

Part of our Grooveshark groups project, we have all been divided up into kick-ass teams of 5 or so, and we’re finally now enacting all of our 3 week long projects.
For Valentine’s Day, we’re giving UF students free $10 in music, conveniently contained in a Valentine’s Day card, which will be taped to the bottom [...]

Grooveshark: The Check is in the Mail

February 14, 2008

With Moneyshark rolling out, our labels are finally starting to get paid (remember “everbody gets paid?“). We’ve crafted up some slick packets that will be going out in the coming weeks, and we’ll be rolling out Moneyshark to labels as the product is tested and debugged.
2008 will be the year of Grooveshark.