Taking Advantage of Trends: Next BIG Sound

Check out this screenshot of NextBigSound… I’ve been listening to a lot more music than normal since I’ve been working from home for the past few weeks. I’ve really enjoyed diving into the lesser known songs on some of my favorite albums. I decided to see how some of my new found favorites racked and stacked against one another so I used NextBigSound.com, the TechStars company that just release their site a few weeks back at TechStars Investor day. The image above, extremely similar to the Compete.com interface, shows the popularity ratings of these bands by how many times their music is being played across the social web. Using sites like Last.fm and others they’re able to measure how often songs are played and shared. A few other great TechStar companies are (from Fred Wilsons blog AVC.com): === Everlater actually used our recent trip to Stockholm and Slovenia as a demo for their service so I can’t help but like what they are doing. As a family that does a lot of travel blogging, I can attest to the fact that there isn’t anything that does a great job in this sector. I’m eager to use Everlater on our next trip this winter. Take Comics is “iTunes for comics”. I confess that I am not a big comic fan and never have been. So this one is not in my sweet spot but I was very impressed by the product they have built. I think they will be successful. Vanilla is open source forums software for the web. The team has been working on this project for quite a while before joining Techstars. So the value they got out of Techstars was not a product. They got mentoring and motivation to build something bigger. And they announced a hosted version yesterday which is the beginning of a revenue model and a business. That’s great to see. === Just as music streaming becomes super popular it’s great to see companies like NextBigSound filling a much needed nitch.

I’ve been listening to a lot more music than normal since I’ve been working from home for the past few weeks. I’ve really enjoyed diving into the lesser known songs on some of my favorite…

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