Scorecard.vc - AI Investor & Startup matchmaking, free academy & credentials, built to democratize the VC Community.***Signup for free: http://Scorecard.vcScorecard.vc is a part of the My Career Maps suite, which has helped thousands worldwide gain access to quality educational content and find gainful employment.

LOUD Capital is a Columbus, OH-based entrepreneurial collective that empowers entrepreneurs and investors with capital, talent, and connections necessary to amplify success. ​ Our goal is to connect with entrepreneurs we believe in, whose passion we share, whose ambition is unending, and whose values we respect.LOUD Capital has presence in Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, and Raleigh, NC.

#iVoted is an initiative founded by entrepreneur Emily White, Mike Luba, and Pat Sansone of Wilco / The Autumn Defense. In 2018 #iVoted activated over 150 venues in 37 states to let fans into venues on November 6th, 2018 (the United States' national election night), who showed a photo of themselves outside of their polling place.Our mission was and is to increase voter turnout. Our next event is on Election Night 11/8/22. Find out when our #RSVP opens later this year by signing up for our email list #HERE: https://lnkd.in/ec6AWpKN.

Helping physicians and medical students find non-clinical side gigs, earn credentials, and more. Helping businesses accelerate with the help of the physician community. Get started for free today at http://beyondphysician.comBeyond Physician is a part of the Career Map family of products, in partnership with LOUD Capital.

Empowering LGBTQ+ Communities Through Venture Capital.Learn more, get involved, and help create real, tangible impact: http://pride.vc

Legacy Entertainment Ventures is a service suite designed for musicians, eSports athletes, influencers, and more. With solutions ranging from private-label venture funds to legacy development and brand association, Legacy Entertainment Ventures provides clients with the opportunity to build their legacy and leverage their personal brand for investment and social impact. Legacy Entertainment Ventures is powered by LOUD Capital. #WhatIsYourLegacyOfficial Press Release: https://prn.to/2GZ5Qjb

Contributor to Forbes.com. I write about entrepreneurship, investing, and entertainment. To view my articles and follow: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianpenick/

Music Industry Experts is a consulting agency offering real-time sessions with top music managers, agents, promoters, attorneys and more. Our roster includes professionals from the teams of Rihanna, Alice Cooper, The Killers, The Black Keys, NF, Fleet Foxes, I Prevail, and Mutemath as well as companies like LiveNation, AEG, UTA/Agency Group, The Roxy, Knitting Factory, Starland Ballroom, HBO, Comedy Central, and entire music economies.1:1, group and class sessions are available for musicians, students, entrepreneurs, educators, parents and more, all with flexible scheduling. Book your session today at http://musicindustry.expert

Music Industry Careers is a marketplace offering careers (internships, freelance work, part/full-time employment), opportunities (peer collaboration, professional services, mentoring, lessons), networking and more. Music Industry Careers was built by experienced music professionals to strengthen the creative community, help musicians and music professionals earn additional revenue and stimulate the overall music economy. Sign up for free at http://musicindustry.careers

Music Career Map, Inc. is an education and career development suite built for the music industry. Our family of products includes Music Industry Careers, a career and opportunity marketplace; Music Industry Academy, offering courses, quizzes and certifications; Music Industry Experts, a consulting marketplace with experienced music professionals; and Musicians Desk Reference, a project management system.Music Career Map's community includes thousands of musicians, students, educators, entrepreneurs, and goods/service providers worldwide. Our products are available in private-label builds, scalable from individuals to businesses and entire economies, including the music sector and beyond.Join our community for free at http://musiccareermap.com

Career management and education platform for the music industry.The platform includes:• Documentation: ~100 documents, including overviews, introductions, reports, and templates • Strategies: Project management with step-by-step instructional guides, team delegation, email management & more• Tools: Onsite document assembly tool (+12 creative templates)MDR has been incorporated into curriculums and lectures at establishments like University of Cincinnati, Indiana U, North Carolina State U, Florida Atlantic U & Groove U. MDR has also been featured at CMJ, Canadian Music Week, Launch Music Conference, Midpoint Music Festival, & the Longstone Street Festival. 30-Day Free Trial available at http://musiciansdeskreference.com

Consulting: Music | Marketing | Events | TechnologyThe Counter Rhythm Group is an agency focused on helping artists, music professionals, startups, and entrepreneurs achieve sustainable growth. With a client base ranging from DIY and major label artists to early-stage startups and large corporations, The Counter Rhythm Group works to help individuals and companies find pathways to sustainable growth through innovation and disruptive thinking.

[Aviso Retention was acquired by Watermark]Consulted around marketing infrastructure, customer acquisition, go-to-market, SEO, CRM development, and alignment with sales team in the higher education & student success market.Aviso Retention was founded in 2012 as a transformational student retention software solution for higher education and joined Watermark in 2022. Created by people in higher education, for people in higher education, Aviso empowers advisors, engages students, and boosts retention and institutional effectiveness.

[Acquirer of Soundstr]VNUE, Inc., (OTCBB: VNUE) is a music technology company dedicated to further monetizing the live music experience for artists, labels, writers, publishers, and literally all stakeholders, by creating new and exciting products; by leveraging automation technology and second-to-none experience in the instant live space; and by identifying issues such as lack of transparency with performance rights organizations and solving this through innovation and our patent-pending solutions. The VNUE team is the most experienced in our space, a group of technology entrepreneurs, artists and songwriters who are passionate about the future of the industry, and ensuring that the value of the rights holders are not lost in the context of new and ever-changing technology. Our team has produced live content and created experiential products for such artists and companies as Peter Frampton, Bad Company, Devo, Blondie, Wind Up Records, EMI, Capitol Records, and many more. By (a) selling only live content through our platforms, to include not just major and independent label content, but creating and scaling our own “instant” live exclusive content, (b) processing and paying mechanical royalties on instant live content, and (c), ensuring proper accounting and payment to rights holders of material played in venues, VNUE has a perfect combination of solutions that will revolutionize the live music business. VNUE, Inc. includes the following brands: VNUE, Soundstr, Set.fm, and DiscLive.

[Soundstr was acquired by VNUE, Inc. in April 2018.]Soundstr helps businesses pay fairer music license fees, based on actual music usage. Soundstr helps those same businesses make more money with an audio ad network and help songwriters get paid when their music is used or performed in a business.Soundstr was founded by musicians and exists to create transparency on the music performed and broadcast in businesses, enabling fairer licensing by those businesses and fairer royalty payments to songwriters.Soundstr is a 2014 graduate of The Brandery - #10 Business Accelerator.

[Acquired by Sony Music]Focus: Worked under CMO advising several VPs around SEO, content strategy and development, customer acquisition for the AWAL brand. Learn more about how AWAL can provide you a variety of services at AWAL.com.Kobalt is the leading independent music services company. Kobalt’s Music Publishing, Label Services, and Neighboring Rights divisions each offer an alternative to the traditional music business model, empowering artists, songwriters, publishers and labels with advanced technology, transparency, flexibility, ownership and control. Kobalt’s innovative technology solutions are designed to maximize efficiency and accuracy across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world.With over 325 employees in 10 offices around the world, Kobalt represents over 8,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 600 publishing companies, providing them with real-time, powerful, transparent reporting through the award-winning Kobalt Portal. Kobalt works with some of the world’s greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 40% of the top 100 songs and albums in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Maroon 5, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Grohl, Max Martin, Bob Dylan, Pitbull, Ellie Goulding, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, One Republic, Skrillex, Gwen Stefani, Akon, Ryan Tedder, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.

Local Director leading the Founder Institute effort in Columbus, Ohio-area and Mentoring Entrepreneurs within the regional startup ecosystem.The Founder Institute is an early-stage startup accelerator and global launch network that helps entrepreneurs create meaningful and enduring technology companies. Through a part-time four month program, existing and prospective founders can launch their dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs - while not being required to quit their day job. Our unique Graduate Liquidity Pool also enables graduates and mentors to share in the equity upside of each class, creating local, teamwork-based ecosystems where great new businesses can flourish. In just a few years of operation, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 1000 companies across 40 cities and five continents - making us the world's largest startup accelerator. Our goal is to "Globalize Silicon Valley" by launching 1,000 meaningful and enduring technology companies per year in over 50 cities worldwide which it is already accomplished.

Festival Director/Manager/Talent Buyer for the Longstone Street Festival in Historic Milford, OH for both the 2014 & 2015 events. Duties included managing everything from City permits and police/fire/emergency personnel to setting the festival budgets, securing equipment and supplies vendors, onsite coordination for 50 for beer, art & crafts, and food vendors, booking 10 performing artists, and coordinating with local businesses for sponsorships, advertising, and promotions. Through my time as Director, the festival attendance grew 3x to 15k attendees throughout the event.

Acted as Interim COO, working directly under the CEO. My focus was to build to the infrastructure of the label surrounding a relaunch. Areas of work included artist relations, development of marketing and promotions departments, label services, distribution, and tour support to the initial roster, which included Jeremy Pinnell, R. Ring (featuring Kelley Deal of The Breeders), Krystal Peterson (Disney), and several other emerging acts. SofaBurn has now grown into an international hub of talent, releasing music and films, a charity, a great staff, and worldwide distribution through ADA (Warner Music Group).BIO: SofaBurn began as a basement label in 2006 as a platform to release albums by our friends. In 2015, we moved out of the basement into an office in Dayton, KY, rolled out National releases by new friends Daniel Martin Moore and Jeremy Pinnell, teamed up with skateboarding legend Mike Vallely and his Street Plant Brand to provide music for a feature-length skate film and routed our artists on tours across the country and overseas. SofaBurn strives to involve itself with artists, musicians, and performers that we find engaging and compelling in an effort that our collective work might find a wider audience.

At the age of 16, I began performing and recording with various artists. Over the next twelve years, I recorded as many albums for seven labels, in addition to contributing to over 20 compilations and samplers. I was an active touring musician for over a decade, performing both domestically and internationally.In addition to my musical contributions, I was also the key-man, business manager, and team liaison for most of my projects. Duties included managing business, finances, marketing, internal operations, and strategy with our record labels, managers, publicists, radio and booking agents, entertainment attorneys, brand sponsors, street teams & more.