Andrew Wise

Current

VP of Business Development at Grooveshark.com

Past

CEO/Founder at e-Piphany Innovations, LLC (Sole Proprietorship)

Education

University of Florida

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

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Andrew Wise’s Summary

Grooveshark is a music sharing community that compensates users for marketing their favorite artists. We developed our platform with the goal of competing with the illegal networks, and tapping into the over 300 billion illegal downloads yearly.

To truly compete with the illegal networks, we offer our users free, full-length streaming on any of our tracks, we give them $.25 compensation for any $.99 song they sell, and we give them the same drm-free collection they can find on the illegal networks, on our network, all while guaranteeing the labels and artists are paid.

We are actively looking to make new connections in the following areas:

* Record labels and artists looking to license their content in our community
* Complementary web-services looking to grow their user base and partnership opportunities
* Advertisers looking to expand their digital media portfolio with an innovative new advertising platform
* Entrepreneurs looking to join a team of passionate, energetic superstars (no hyperbole :P)
* Media agencies looking for a compelling and interesting story about a bunch of kids from the University of Florida hell-bent on changing the music industry

Shoot me an email at andrew.wise@grooveshark.com

Andrew Wise’s Specialties:

contract negotiation, sales, bootstrapping, fundraising, investor relations

Andrew Wise’s Experience

VP of Business Development

Grooveshark.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

August 2006 — Present (2 years)

Essential core member of 4 person management team at an Internet startup in Gainesville, FL.

Under my direction the company achieved the following milestones:

Through a 3 month push, have personally signed over 600 record labels to licensing deals with our un-tested, un-proven music marketplace

Managed and orchestrated the raise of over $1 million in Angel money as a 22 year old college student

Lead a company from 7 employees to over 25 full-time and 40 part-time, working in whatever capacity required to build the business
CEO/Founder
e-Piphany Innovations, LLC (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Consumer Electronics industry)

June 2005 — May 2007 (2 years)

Company set up to protect myself from liability while selling computer hardware on eBay.

Gross revenue over $200k, with a ROI of 30% over a 2 year period.