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Admin is killing your business and life (opens the original)
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Between 2017 and 2024, I built and sold the company that launched Rolling Stone and Variety Australia. We built The Rolling Stone Awards and The Variety CMO Dinner among many other events and IP.At its peak, the media business reached half the Australian population each month.The Black Hoody is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" nam
Netflix Passed. Joe DeRosa Put Up 800K Views. Then Netflix Came Back. (opens the original)
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Joe DeRosa had every reason to believe the entertainment business had made up its mind about him.He was cast in the pilot for CBS sitcom “Living Biblically” and booked for 10 episodes, only to have his character cut two weeks before production. Two other pilots failed to move forward. Management relationships ended and he wasn’t passed at any of the big comedy clubs in Los Angeles. For artists, excuses are plentiful: The part disappeared. The show was canceled. The right executives did not respo
New Rules for Breaking Comedians (opens the original)
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Every June, Emilio Savone and his business partners start to worry that something is wrong with their comedy clubs. Sales slow down. The temptation is to cut costs or abandon whatever new project they have taken on. Then September arrives and the rooms fill again.They have been through this cycle enough times that they now put a recurring reminder in the calendar: don’t freak out.It is a small detail, but it explains a lot about how Savone looks at comedy careers. After years of running clubs, h
How He Built Diplo (opens the original)
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Kevin Kusatsu managed Diplo for well over a decade. He never signed a contract with him. Not one page, ever.<img alt="" class="sizing-no
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