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By: Xentience (Internal) Blog » My 9 Favorite Startup Lessons From Startup School

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:17:15 +0000

[...] Imeem CEO Dalton Caldwell gave a crowd-pleasing talk about the failures of his music startup (which sold to MySpace and effectively died about a year ago). Imeem raised over $50 million from investors including [...]

By: My 9 Favorite Startup Lessons From Startup School: Tech News «

My 9 Favorite Startup Lessons From Startup School: Tech News « — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:47:41 +0000

By: Play.me Jumps on the Freemium Bandwagon, But Will the Model Stick? – GigaOM

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:31:50 +0000

[...] a freemium model. But music labels’ enthusiasm for free streaming services appears to be on the wane, and as such, whether the freemium model will remain intact for the music business remains [...]

By: FreeAllMusic Still Believes In Ad-Supported Downloads – GigaOM

FreeAllMusic Still Believes In Ad-Supported Downloads – GigaOM — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:56:13 +0000

[...] In Ad-Supported Downloads By Paul Bonanos Dec. 22, 2009, 12:55pm No Comments 0 0 0 0 The distressed sale of Imeem and flameout of SpiralFrog were among several events this year that cast doubt on the [...]

By: FreeAllMusic Still Believes In Ad-Supported Downloads – GigaOM

FreeAllMusic Still Believes In Ad-Supported Downloads – GigaOM — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:56:10 +0000

[...] In Ad-Supported Downloads By Paul Bonanos Dec. 22, 2009, 12:55pm No Comments 0 0 0 The distressed sale of Imeem and flameout of SpiralFrog were among several events this year that cast doubt on the [...]

By: Still Quiet Before Launch, Rdio Introduces iPhone App – GigaOM

Still Quiet Before Launch, Rdio Introduces iPhone App – GigaOM — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:10:12 +0000

[...] month. (Meanwhile, MySpace Music — which recently acquired free streaming sites iLike and Imeem — may also be mulling a paid service, though few people would pay for such a thing; Apple, [...]

By: sollyboi

sollyboi — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:27:34 +0000

man... i thought my internet connection is broken or something, i was wondering why i keep on getting redirected to myspace.so, this is the news after all.. ^^

By: After Weak Exits In Digital Music, VCs Start Smaller – GigaOM

After Weak Exits In Digital Music, VCs Start Smaller – GigaOM — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:08:44 +0000

[...] music companies that gave investors high hopes in 2007 haven’t resulted in great returns in 2009. Imeem and iLike have produced weak exits for stakeholders, and Apple’s purchase of Lala seems to have [...]

By: Apple in Talks to Acquire Lala: Report – GigaOM

Apple in Talks to Acquire Lala: Report – GigaOM — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:07:04 +0000

[...] investment in another streaming music site, Imeem. News Corp.-owned MySpace is in the process of acquiring Imeem at a fire-sale price, just months after it acquired social music site iLike for a fraction of its former value. Bain [...]

By: Recapturing the grandeur of analog: digital’s next milestone – discourse and notes

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:40:24 +0000

[...] if one web music machine after another is either shut down, restructured, or sold for nothing, we have to ask ourselves why this is. There must be more to the answer than merely [...]

By: imeem hits the wall « Nevoda's Blog

imeem hits the wall « Nevoda's Blog — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:11:52 +0000

[...] infringement at $150,000 a pop adds to the pressure. (Om Malik, who already has the company sold, says Imeem and the others “cut bad deals and had painted themselves into a [...]

By: Opinion: Why imeem Really Sold Out

Opinion: Why imeem Really Sold Out — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:59:30 +0000

[...] VIEW ARTICLE SOURCE [...]

By: MySpace, la via della musica è giusta: Jessica Brando lo prova - The New Blog Times

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:21:46 +0000

[...] per rivelarsi ben fatto. Anche se, come altri hanno osservato, le vere ragioni della conclusione potrebbero essere [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:55:57 +0000

Warner Brothers? The movie studio? You must mean Warner Music Group. Get the facts rights.

By: Done Deal: MySpace Buys Imeem For Up To $10 Million | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:12:27 +0000

[...] Om Malik reported, the company was hit with a copyright lawsuit by music publisher Orchard Enterprises (ORCD). [...]

By: What MySpace’s Acquisition of Imeem Means « The SiliconANGLE

What MySpace’s Acquisition of Imeem Means « The SiliconANGLE — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:27:46 +0000

[...] MySpace likely purchased Imeem for a relatively low price, according to GigaOm. [...]