Dave Haynes

[...] and striking out to seek fresh inspiration and new challenges. For now, I'll be leaving the music industry but I'll still be a keen observer and hope to carve out some time to play an active role in [...]

[...] was that I wanted to be: back in a small, fast-moving team working on problems outside of the music industry opening myself up to new opportunities finding new inspirations and stretching myself to [...]

[...] . I hate the word, but for me at the beginning, it was 24/7 hustle. My business card said Business Development but I think Ian Hogarth describes it best as the 10x Hustle. The first months were lean. [...]

[...] Makeshift, it felt like a unique opportunity. So that's it in a nutshell. My new role is business development at Makeshift (side-note: it's funny how job titles seem irrelevant at startups but [...]

[...] all the amazing experiences I've had over the last 5 years. Over and out. Subscribe for future blog posts [...]

[...] ? Frankly, I have no idea. But it feels pretty awesome to be making a shift. Subscribe for future blog posts [...]

[...] titles seem irrelevant at startups but essential as you start to grow beyond 20+). We're a startup studio and right now we're focused on building tools for other startups like ourselves. Head over to [...]

[...] 2013 was a crazy year for me. 2014 will involve some big changes. I 'll need a space to get down all my thoughts, [...]

(Hat tip to the wonderful Matas Petrikas for inspiring this post. He did it much better than I did.) 2013, a year that I won't forget: I took 58 fli [...]

[...] to close for the first Music Hack Day London and certainly didn't want to get behind on my SoundCloud inbox. SoundCloud and everything around it had suddenly become a big part of my world. Why [...]

[...] will be right to focus on some more new ideas soon. So, I asked to get back on the startup rollercoaster and that's certainly what I've got. In fact, right now it feels like I'm riding several [...]

[...] Just over 5 years ago, I joined a little Berlin startup called SoundCloud. It was one of the best things I ever did. We've achieved incredible things [...]

[...] the layer for sound on the web. At the time (and still largely true today), most other digital music startups were focusing on the shift from physical to digital consumption of music rather than a [...]

[...] be a keen observer and hope to carve out some time to play an active role in advising other music startups. Over the next few weeks I still have a few things to transition over, but have [...]