Sublime

Sriram Words: "From the Sony hack, Dave Goldberg writes a fascinating, educational memo to Lynton on the state of the music industry. I saved this years ago when the hack was reported on and I'm always struck by how big of a loss Goldberg is to all of tech."

According to Goldberg, the record company needed to act like a music publisher for new releases- putting up very little money but not trying to hold artists for long contract periods or to keep as much of the revenue. Advances would be $50k with a 40% revenue share after the advance. Losses in new releases are generally driven by expensive fixed he... See more

5. Group purchasing

There is a pendulum swing happening between bundling and unbundling.

This is end-user programming, a vision for empowered computing pursued by bright-eyed computer science visionaries.