Start Up Focus :The making and funding of Spotify

CEO and Co-Founder of Spotify Daniel Ek became a multimillionaire at age 23 when he sold an online advertising company in his native Sweden in 2006.

Not many know that it was a rejection  from Google which made " Daniel what he has achieved today As a 16 year old he was turned away when he applied for a job at Google. This, daniel says was a start of a journey and a turning point  " when he undertook a resolution' of not letting age interfere with his knowledge and subsequently gave birth to an idea, which he has since never looked back 

The idea behind Spotify was " the opportunity" it gave to  the sputtering music industry to create an alternative to music-piracy services such as Napster. Spotify gives a cut of the revenue to record labels and music publishers, which in turn pay out their artists and songwriters at varying rates.

The major labels – Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group, Sony Corp.’s Sony Music Entertainment and Access Industries’ Warner Music Group – also own about 15%of the company, collectively. Spotify reported in November that its 2013 revenue was €747 million ($842 million) and it lost €57.8 million ($65 million).

 Spotify revenue model is based on a bait that " offers a limited, free version of its service", hoping users will eventually subscribe. The company counts 15 million subscribers to its $9.99 premium plan, and about 45 million active users of its free, ad-supported version – by far the biggest global user base of any subscription music offering

List of  VC  Funding and Equity Investments in Spotify; As of 2015 137 VC funding firms have a stake in the company 

Spotify installieren | Ubuntu 14.04

Anleitung: Spotify unter Ubuntu 14.04 installieren
Für die Installation von Spotify gehen wir erst einmal in die Systemeinstellungen.

Hier wählen wir Software & Aktualisierung aus.

Unter Andere Software (1) klicken wir unten links auf Hinzufügen ... (2) -> neues Fenster öffnet sich und unter APT-Zelle (3) fügen wir dies hinzu:
deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Klickt dann auf +Software-Paketquelle hinzufügen und sollte das System die Quellen neu laden wollen, dann klickt auf Nein, da wir das später sowieso tun werden.

Startet das Terminal und führt diesen Befehl aus (Anleitung):
[1] sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59
Bestätigt mit Enter und eurem Passwort, welches Ihr bei der Installation von Ubuntu 14.04 selbst gewählt habt. Danach führt Ihr diese beiden Befehle aus:

[2] sudo apt-get update
[3] sudo apt-get install spotify-client

Nach der Installation Spotify einfach über die Dash aufrufen.

Schon könnt Ihr Spotify nutzen.

In Zukunft wird es den Spotify Client direkt auf der Homepage von Spotify geben. Dort einfach unter Downloads die .deb-Datei herunterladen und nach diesem Beispiel installieren.