Hack the Entrepreneur 221: The Transformation from Musician to Entrepreneur

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Derek Webb of NoiseTrade talks with Jon in this episode of HTE about leveraging the internet to create free content and make money.

Derek Webb is a 20+ year veteran of the music industry. As a musician, he published dozens of albums and sold millions of copies. In 2006, he decided to move into the business side of the music industry as Co-founder and President of NoiseTrade, a revolutionary tribe-building platform. NoiseTrade began as a way for my guest to promote his own music. Due to its success, he found himself helping friends and friends-of-friends do the same thing. The demand was so great that he built it into a platform. NoiseTrade was recently acquired by PledgeMusic in a deal that is set to propel NoiseTrade forward and enable them to help more artists build their tribes. Hey, I'm Jonny. My mission is to help…from hacktheentrepreneur.com

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