While building my music streaming app, it was clear to me that I needed to understand the space I was “disrupting”, (or better put “improving” if you don’t like the strangely aggressive silicon valley phase). A key element to understand was “How do bands/artists succeed?”, not being an industry expert myself the best I could do was scour the internet for a broad consensus. Below are some of the less obvious reasons I discovered… Meet people… A lot of us like to think ourselve