An Overdose Of Nicholas Molnar

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

1. Stop the Musical Masturbation
I wasted so much time playing open mics and writer’s nights in Nashville and Boston. The same is true of all the “hot new music sites” that spring up every 20 minutes on the Internet. The fans do not go there, you’re only entertaining yourself. Every open mic I’ve ever seen is a room full of musicians politely waiting for their turn to get on stage. These events only introduce musicians to other musicians and offer some live performance practice. Trying to sell CD’s at an open mic is like trying to sell timeshare condos at a telemarketing convention. Fans go to Facebook or iTunes, not Stereofame. I could waste all my time playing for a crowd of other broke indie artists or I can spend my efforts approaching fans where they’re already congregating.

The average yellow pages book weighs 3.62 pounds. Multiply that by the 540 million directories printed each year and you get 2 BILLION pounds of paper. It takes 24 fully developed trees to make a ton of paper. So you’re looking at 23 million trees each year being cut down to make these books. The yellow pages industry is a $26 billion annual business, bigger than Google’s $20 billion in revenues for 2008. The yellow pages are profitable and are not dying anytime soon.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.

I then asked my friend, “so why would they ever use the Google (non open source) license version.”  Here was the big punch line – because Google will give you ad splits on search if you use that version!  That’s right; Google will pay you to use their mobile OS. I like to call this the “less than free” business model.