SoundCloud tops Music Ally / MidemNet New Business Showcase
German startup SoundCloud emerged victorious in today’s Music Ally / MidemNet New Business Showcase, grabbing 25% of the audience’s votes to top the field of seven new music startups.
The company’s stated aim is to make it easier for people in the music industry – artists, labels, producers and more – to share music files with each other, and the wider world (i.e. legal B2B file-sharing, usually prior to release).
It revolves around storing files in the cloud rather than people emailing or FTP’ing them to one another, with a slick web-based service and a built-in player for listening to files – complete with commenting facilities.
MC Hammer is using it, and that proved recommendation enough for the audience (plus a very good presentation from CEO Alexander Ljung). “Everybody has the same problems,” he said. “You can be a big-selling artist or not, but the problem [of sending, receiving and distributing files] you’re trying to solve is the same.”
Congratulations to SoundCloud, and to the other six startups who were shortlisted in the contest. For more details on them, and a blow-by-blow account of the session, read our liveblog.
Tags: midemnet, music ally, soundcloud
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January 19th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
yes app is cool but soundclou is loaded with copyright infragment files like zshares and all that …. strange. btw me and u mc hammer is not the ultimate music proof of concept in 2009
check out topspin and fairtilizer for same services with real music pros on it
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I agree Soundcloud looks pretty cool and has that dropbox, and is pretty easy to understand, but there are one or two other websites that got my vote, see above.
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