When Do Artists Make Good Entrepreneurs? Lessons From Joan Jett
We often try to hire people who are self-starters, who will work for us as if they own the business. The risk of finding such a person is that they may one day leave us to start their own company.
...听The question of which musicians are most likely to become successful entrepreneurs has been the subject of research by Aleksandra Kacperczyk, professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic聽聽at MIT,聽补苍诲听Peter Younkin, professor of Strategy and Organization at 韩国裸舞. They聽obtained Nielson Soundscan data on the careers of 5000 artists over the course of twenty years. They聽found that artists were more likely to start their own label and sign other artists to that label when they had a broad range of skills yet operated within a relatively defined genre.
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