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Canadian Heritage committee We're actually on the opposite side of it. I would say we do more for artists in music export than we do on helping them locally. Artists are usually pretty good at getting people in their area to know about them and at getting friends to come out to shows. The successful artis
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper
Canadian Heritage committee Of each other.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper
Canadian Heritage committee The first recommendation I had was more so just a change, an update, on how the FACTOR and Musicaction collective initiative programs work. Right now the maximum per program application is essentially $50,000 that's matched by our company. We receive $50,000 from FACTOR, and we m
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper
Canadian Heritage committee One hundred per cent.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper
Canadian Heritage committee Realistically we wouldn't be talking about a lot of companies per year. There are maybe three to five serious music platforms in Canada that are raising venture capital level money per year. So you are already going to weed out a lot of the smaller applications. Realistically you
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper
Canadian Heritage committee The thing to mention about apps is basically that they're only as effective as the user who wants to use the app and how engaged they get with the app. One of the questions we get often is from record labels that come to us and they want to put out a record label app that has all
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper
Canadian Heritage committee I would guess more the matchmaking part of it. It's hard, obviously. I've been lucky to the point where I've been able to call and email people who should never accept my email in any way, and they've taken 30 minutes out to sit down with me. I can honestly say that's probably
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper
Canadian Heritage committee Absolutely.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper
Canadian Heritage committee One of the most valuable things that I've had starting companies or working in the music industry has really been the mentors and the people who have sort of done that business before. If the government was to try to work with a lot of these senior music industry people, senior
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper
Canadian Heritage committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting me to meet with your committee. First off, my name is Shawn Cooper, and I'm the president and co-founder of a company called Volu.me. We work with artists, and Canadian artists specifically, such as Hedley, Tegan and Sara, The Sheepdogs, and Sl
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shawn Cooper