Title: The Other Side Of Success
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Blog Entry: By: Michael Friedman When I started Skope in 2000, I was a naive and optimistic college student. It was an interesting time as I was studying music industry at Northeatsern University in Boston. I was concerned that when I graduated I would have no music industry contacts for a job in the biz after graduation. Now here we are in 2008. I am 28 years old and am married. I am so very happy with everything in my life. I love my wife and I know that nomatter what we will have a very nice life together. Alot of people do not knopw this but I also work 40 hours a week at Children's Hospital in Boston. I really like my job here and it allows me to do Skope & manage Access Control - Security as well. I used to be ashamed of that within the music industry but now I embrace it as something that not everyone could do. Its nice to have work that I enjoy and a passion project as well. I am also very proud of Skope. My grandfather & I have invested over $400K into this company. We built it up from scratch to what you see on the newsstands and online today. We really started Skope with no knowledge of anything except that I love music and I love being involved with the music biz. As of now we have various revenue streams and increasing revenues. I have learned that you can have the best magazine, staff, & website but without those big marketing numbers, you just cannot compete. Every issue and every month we grow alittle bit and that keeps me going. As long as Skope stays on an upward direction there is reason to continue on. I truly believe in Skope I just feel that in this day and age it takes time to catch on. Skope is so diverse and so real that people do not get it at first. My grandfather always tells me that Skope will be a $10 million company. I listen and believe he is right. Going through this chapter of my life has taught me so much. I have so much repect for those that have taken a risk. People of all forms take risks from musicians to businessmen. Without risk there is no reward. People who have put it all on the line and have made it work. When I look back on why I started Skope it was never to get rich. I am the type of person who does not need much anyway. I started Skope to make a mark in the music business and to provide talented people solid jobs. My idols coming up were and still are David Geffen, Clive Davis, Steve Rifkind, Lyor Cohen, Marc Ecko, & Dave Mays. If I can even be placed in the same regard as one of them, I will be happy. I still am not sure what the purpose of this was, but in this day of the BLOG, I figured why not?!
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