Music tech founders Stanley Vergilis (Tone3000), Mauhan Zonoozy (The Vinyl Bar in Shibuya), and Jessica Powell (AudioShake) join Conor Healy from Yamaha Music Innovation Fund to discuss building defensible companies. Learn about creating moats through marketplaces, data, and partnerships; fundraising strategies from angels to VCs; founder-market fit; and common startup mistakes. Packed with tactical insights on product-market fit, pitching investors, and scaling music tech st

Music tech founders Stanley Vergilis (Tone3000), Mauhan Zonoozy (The Vinyl Bar in Shibuya), and Jessica Powell (AudioShake) join Conor Healy from Yamaha Music Innovation Fund to discuss building defensible companies. Learn about creating moats through marketplaces, data, and partnerships; fundraising strategies from angels to VCs; founder-market fit; and common startup mistakes. Packed with tactical insights on product-market fit, pitching investors, and scaling music tech st

This week on Music Tectonics, we're continuing our Conference Conversations series from the Music Tectonics Conference. Today, we're featuring Ethan Millman from the Hollywood Reporter. Ethan breaks down one of the biggest music industry trends: the blurring lines between music distribution and record labels. We explore how label services are evolving why distribution deals have become the hottest topic in music business and what artists need to know when choosing between dis

Music Tectonics kicks off a series from the recent conference with Andrew Kahn and Conor Healy from Yamaha Music Innovation Fund. They discuss how Yamaha invests in music tech startups, what they seek in founders, and why solving real creator problems matters more than chasing AI hype. Topics include expanding beyond traditional musicians, what makes startups fundable, streaming infrastructure opportunities, building creator revenue streams, and insights from startup speed da

Fresh off Music Tectonics Conference in Santa Monica, we're sharing a keynote from our pre-conference event: Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Research presents "Crossroads: Streaming's Time to Choose." Mark examines critical pressures facing streaming—from AI-generated content flooding platforms to Gen Z's slower adoption rates—and why the industry must shift from optimization to revolution. Includes Q&A from our community

This week, we're exploring the future of direct-to-fan commerce with Joshua Stone, the CEO and Co-Founder of Stuff.io and book.io. Josh has some serious backing, including names like Mark Cuban, Snoop Dogg, and Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum just to name a few, and has been working on building Web3 infrastructure that lets artists sell media directly to fans that fans can own and not just rent. We talk about why streaming doesn't pay most artists, how direct-to

This week, we're exploring the future of direct-to-fan commerce with Joshua Stone, the CEO and Co-Founder of Stuff.io and book.io. Josh has some serious backing, including names like Mark Cuban, Snoop Dogg, and Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum just to name a few, and has been working on building Web3 infrastructure that lets artists sell media directly to fans that fans can own and not just rent. We talk about why streaming doesn't pay most artists, how direct-to

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We are rewinding and playing back some of our favorite guests during the month of August. Today we have a great conversation with the CEO and co-founder of LyricFind. Listen in to find out how Darryl got his first investor, and what Microsoft, childhood bedrooms, outdated websites, and roller coasters have to do with anything. Listen wherever you pod your casts: Looking for Rock Paper Scanner, the newsletter of music tech news curated by the Rock Paper Scissors PR team? Sub

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