Hi friends,
Happy belated Valentine’s Day! Just thought I would give a little update about what happened this past week at the Sonicbids office.
Last Thursday we hosted a meeting for the Boston Young Entrepreneurs (BYE). BYE is a non-profit that helps young entrepreneurs in Boston develop, launch and grow their businesses. It was actually co-founded by our very own Panos Panay (seriously, does this guy ever get any sleep?) in February, 2005–just four years after founding Sonicbids. It’s a great organization that helps young professionals realize their dreams of starting their own business, which ultimately helps bring business, jobs and capital into the city of Boston. In this crazy economy, I’d say something like that is pretty important! On the third Tuesday of every month, BYE hosts “a business plan presentation by a member entrepreneur,” and then the group analyzes the plan so they can help the member strengthen his or her company. To learn more about it, check out http://www.bostonyoungentrepreneurs.com/
A bunch of us in the Sonicbids office hung around to see what it was all about (check out some photos I took below) mostly because we realize entrepreneurs and artists aren’t all that different! If you think about it, both groups need to know how to sustain themselves using their talents, find the right niche of people to connect to, and develop a plan to grow their resources… the similarities are endless. There are a lot of resources out there to think about your own business plan as an artist that I encourage you to check out. I did a quick search through some cool music blogs and here’s just one that I found by Kavit Haria on Inner Rhythm: http://www.innerrhythm.org/blog/how-to-write-your-music-business-plan/
Feel free to post any other articles or links you think might be helpful for your fellow musician-friends.
Enjoy!
Tess
