2009 was a crap year for start-ups. The financial crisis’ aftermath caused budgets to shrink, nearly everywhere but Silicon Valley. Not at least cause a large fraction of the US VC firms is present there. VentureSource reported an increase of 30 to 40% of invested VC in 2009. But where did that money go? For…
MIDEM is organising sessions called ‘Meet the Speakers‘, providing you a 10 minute one-to-one meeting with panelists you’re interested in. So they do with the speakers of their ‘Looking for Funding’ Panel, where venture capitalists and consultants will discuss potential benefits to the music industry in soliciting financing from such investors. Among the speakkers are…
German funding institution for the music industry ,Initiative Musik‘ launched a new format, a federal conference called Plan! Pop where future projects worth funding are being discussed together with regional music supporters, such as newcomer contests, educational institutions or local networks (e.g. a regional network of clubs in Berlin). It seems a good idea to…
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