Nashville, TN – September 1, 2009 – News arrived last week that Mog and Rightsflow landed additional rounds of equity. One may wonder if investors are being lured into music again. The answer is both yes and no. Except for Spotify, few listening-based music startups have recently captured the fancy of investors. Lately, music-based companies that have landed venture capital do not have revenue models built upon licensing music from record labels. As a result, they do not have to deal with byzantine and expensive processes, lay out capital to obtain those licenses or shoehorn a business model into the constraints of those licenses. Read the rest of this entry »