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who was headhunted by a major investment bank to help start a financial-services Web site. "The invited him to lunch," says
Schmitt. "When he got there, he asked if Martin noticed all the cars in the parking lot. He pointed to one, and told him that if he signed right then, he could have the keys." It was a Ferrari. Turner declined. "He doesn't like red," says Schmitt, who promptly hired him to be peoplesound.com's COO.
1167:'PeopleSound.com Ltd. now leads Europe-based Internet sites for downloadable music. Based in Britain, it has German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian versions, and it emphasizes its local content.' 'In July, MP3.com and PeopleSound.com were the seventh and 10th most popular entertainment sites, respectively, among European Web surfers, according to MMXI Europe BV, a site-ranking firm.'
1072:'PeopleSound.com Ltd. now leads Europe-based Internet sites for downloadable music. Based in Britain, it has German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian versions, and it emphasizes its local content.' 'In July, MP3.com and PeopleSound.com were the seventh and 10th most popular entertainment sites, respectively, among European Web surfers, according to MMXI Europe BV, a site-ranking firm.'
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who joined when the company started last year could each make $ 5 million. Staff joining today would still have made about $ 160,000 from their share options", and "100 millionaires could be created". Martin Turner, COO, noted that they'd only make inroads into the US after going public, due to the cost of market entry.
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London is turning into the main new
Silicon Valley for Internet businesses and the UK is the hot-point for new music coming out of Europe," he says. "So we're starting in the UK and then rapidly setting up subsidiaries in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Benelux countries and even Turkey." "A lot
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earlier in the year. On 11 June, it was announced
Vitaminic was buying PeopleSound for 34 million euros in cash. The deal made the joint entity one of the top three largest music platforms on the web and left PeopleSound shareholders with a 19 per cent stake in Vitaminic, the company being one of few
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In the same week that MP3.com defiantly continued its plans for a
European expansion following its ceasefire with the major record labels, EMI, one of the largest music publishers in the world, shook hands with peoplesound.com. Why? Because peoplesound.com uses EMI's technology to find out whether a
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The combined acquisition joined archrivals and gave the company a combined catalogue of more than 329,000 tracks and agreements with over 1,200 record labels, with
Schmitt telling The Guardian, "Vitaminic is very strong in southern Europe and the US and on the subscriptions side of things we're very
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but had no music industry experience. The platform was built on the premise that technology could help consumers discover music and that an entire new generation of artists needed new channels to be distributed through. It aimed to "topple the monopoly of major music companies revolutionise the way
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Peoplesound.com, the free on-line music download site, yesterday shrugged off concerns surrounding the future backing for start-up internet companies by finalising a new funding round valuing it in excess of £70m. Finnish wireless communications operator Sonera
Corporation is taking an 8% stake in
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That's where the growth is. And the stories of wealth and competition are starting to rival the tales from
Silicon Valley and Route 128. Twenty-eight-year-old Ernesto Schmitt, the founder of peoplesound.com, remembers the hiring battle for Martin Turner, a former managing director of CompuServe UK,
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PeopleSound was said to only reject 20 per cent of the music offered to them, aiming to create a democratised music platform, and offered customers two free songs from every band. It aimed to differentiate itself by filtering out poor quality artist submissions, and both it and MP3.com were seen as
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October 2000, PeopleSound launched a service for marketers to discover and license music for TV, digital and offline advertising. The platform aimed to license music at a quarter the cost and take a fraction of the time the process would usually take, and announced plans to launch a tool to find
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named
Schmitt "one of the elite figures of the London Net-economy", while ZDNet declared him "one of the UK's better known Web entrepreneurs". It was widely expected to float that summer, reaching a valuation of £100 million. Had an IPO gone to plan, it was expected that "even the most junior staff
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Peoplesound has yet to launch, Schmitt's already has 35 employees, from customer service representatives to secretaries to a staff of four professional A&R people who review all of the incoming submissions. Schmitt says that when Peoplesound goes live the site will feature 1,000 bands.
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First out the door and on to the first plane to New York was the chief executive of Peoplesound, Ernesto Schmitt, star of many a dot.com documentary. Schmitt has landed himself a plum role at EMI Group stateside, where he will fill a newly created position of senior vice-president of strategy and
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Peoplesound differentiates itself by filtering out poor quality artist submissions before they are posted on-line. "We get rid of the crap early on. Some sites will post recordings of kids singing in the bath but we have a dedicated team of ex-A&R men deciding which artists will make it onto
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However, the operation disappoints market observers. "It's an unattractive company buying a really great company. I've always been very skeptical of Vitaminic and would have liked to see how far Peoplesound could have gone. We'll have to see what happens to the two companies combined."said Heidi
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In 2004, it was understood that PeopleSound.com was set to be relaunched, and the site had begun operating on a limited basis. Sources said the launch would reposition PeopleSound as an advertising-funded community web site for labels and other content providers. Although the domain name for the
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Ernesto Schmitt, president and chairman of music website Peoplesound.com, is another strong believer in attending First Tuesday events in the early stages of the business: First Tuesday was instrumental in so many ways. I could bounce ideas off other First Tuesday members, which helped me hone
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If they pass the Peoplesound A&R selection and gain a contract, Peoplesound will share 50% of the net profit from record sales. The figure is far more than you'd expect from most major record companies, 17-20% of sales is normal, and even independent labels only offer around 30% after
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Peoplesound's 10,000 artists and 30,000 free MP3 tracks will now be publicised and available for download from AltaVista, LineOne, Liberty Surf and intermusic. The deal with Amazon will enable users to purchase CDs from Peoplesound artists from the music and books retail
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of it is about having a local grass roots presence, a network and marketing. We've got 150 people working for us across the UK now, finding bands and sending them to us. Without that network you won't be able to get the content and that's really what it's all about.
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Not content to rest on its laurels while it awaits EU regulatory approval on its £14bn merger with Time Warner, EMI has revealed details of a wide-ranging partnership with Europe's largest free music download website Peoplesound.com - the first deal of its kind in
353:, who took an 8 per cent stake; Ladybird Ventures; and Zouk Ventures, taking a further 2.4 per cent. Under the deal, PeopleSound exclusively became the free music provider for Zed, Sonera's global wireless portal. This integration was the first example of
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noted PeopleSound.com was the most popular music platform in Europe, and led European based Internet sites for downloadable music, still "in its infancy". It had sites in English, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian, and ranked in the top ten most popular
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Peoplesound.com is built on three principles: the principle that through clever technology, you can help consumers discover music, that an entire new generation of artists need to be distributed, but can't be distributed through the traditional
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Schmitt said he is walking a fine line between a display of wealth for the industry and keeping a modest profile for the artists. "If the artists get the impression we're getting rich off them, it would be disastrous," he said.
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strong in northern Europe". The combined entity was listed on Milan's Nuovo Mercato stock exchange. By August 2001, and following the internet bubble boom of mid-2000, Schmitt quit to take up a senior role for EMI in New York.
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the London-based company, with internet venture capital firm Zouk Ventures taking a further 2.4%. Under the terms of the deal Peoplesound becomes exclusive free music provider for Sonera's global wireless portal, Zed.
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The idea for a new format for online music distribution site was dreamt up by Ernesto Schmitt at about the time lastminute was launching last November. Peoplesound will open for business in the autumn. The
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Peoplesound.com management. From left: Bruno Heese, VP International Development, Martin Turner, Chief Operating Officer, Paul Levett, VP Technical Operations and Ernesto Schmitt, Chief Executive Officer.
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noting that it was "an unattractive company (Vitaminic) buying a really great company (PeopleSound)"; PeopleSound founder Schmitt told the BBC the deal would "reshape the traditional music industry".
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Peoplesound.com. I was also introduced to a number of investors whose interest helped me to drive up the value of my proposition. Perhaps most importantly, I found my chief operating officer there.
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new artist showcasing on the site is likely to be a hit or a miss. In other words, it's another A&R tool for EMI, and it gives a dot.com launched only last year the support of a major player.
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to create a platform where users could search for music by artist or category and discover new recommended music. Unlike music distribution before, which had been managed exclusively by
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called PeopleSound "the leader for European-based downloadable music sites", as well as the first pioneer of music streaming on mobile, and it set the basis for later companies like
2037:"Vitaminic is very strong in southern Europe and the US and on the subscriptions side of things we're very strong in northern Europe. It's a very complementary tie-up," he said.
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We only reject around 20 percent of what is offered to us, and with those we do reject, it's not a question of whether these guys are going to sell five million copies or not.
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relaunched PeopleSound kept being renewed until the end of 2008, the site itself stopped received updates in 2006, with the most recent release listed on their site being
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Peoplesound will offer customers two free songs from every band as a taster and then invite customers to create their own compilations in CD Realaudio or MP3 format.
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Ernesto Schmitt, Peoplesound's president and founder, claims that sites such as his could revolutionise the way new bands are signed and listened to.
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1610:"CAMPAIGN-I: Peoplesound unveils music licensing portal"
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1882:'one of the elite figures of the London Net-economy'
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Sheer Inspiration: The UK's Most Visionary Companies
1199:'one of the elite figures of the London Net-economy'
1144:"MP3.com Says It Is Looking to Europe for Expansion"
1049:"MP3.com Says It Is Looking to Europe for Expansion"
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Official website of Intelligent Systems Corporation
2051:"The day the music died for online rebel Napster"
1086:"MP3.com Europe won't include signature services"
918:"The Company File | London's swinging Netropolis"
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1896:"Empire-building Vitaminic swallows Peoplesound"
1230:'one of the UK's better known Web entrepreneurs'
1213:"Empire-building Vitaminic swallows Peoplesound"
1018:"Empire-building Vitaminic swallows Peoplesound"
597:"The Company File: London's swinging Netropolis"
497:post-bubble exits. The deal had sceptics, with
2308:Compare with next available archived snapshot.
1924:"L'italien Vitaminic s'empare de Peoplesound"
1864:"L'italien Vitaminic s'empare de Peoplesound"
1275:"L'italien Vitaminic s'empare de Peoplesound"
1181:"L'italien Vitaminic s'empare de Peoplesound"
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1513:"EMI unveils first online publishing deal"
1424:"Sweet harmony: Supply-chain management".
1242:Snoddy, Julia; Cassy, John (1 June 2001).
1112:"EMI unveils first online publishing deal"
988:Snoddy, Julia; Cassy, John (1 June 2001).
2273:"Sources: U.K.'s Peoplesound To Relaunch"
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1862:Robert, Virginie (11 June 2001).
1802:"Italian Firm's Dolce Music Deal"
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1273:Robert, Virginie (11 June 2001).
1179:Robert, Virginie (11 June 2001).
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2239:Cassy, John (15 February 2000).
2077:Simmons, Lisa (26 August 2001).
2049:Mathiason, Nick (24 June 2001).
1766:"Vitaminic comprará Peoplesound"
1717:"Vitaminic acquista Peoplesound"
1664:"Vitaminic acquires PeopleSound"
1338:"A slow start to the revolution"
1305:Cassy, John (15 February 2000).
1293:100 million pound valuation
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340:grassroots marketing
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