Meet the Nominee of the Day(8), SoundCloud, Sweden

Company Bio

SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.

Web

http://soundcloud.com

Country:

Sweden (located currently in Berlin)

Snapshot:

Meet the founders

Eric Wahlforss

Blog: http://eric.wahlforss.com/

• LinkedIn, Xing, Facebook or aSW
• Portfolio (Mostly older work) & CV
• Photostream & Linkstream
• Last.fm Listeningstream
• Jaiku Presence & Plazes Tracking
• or… Google Him!

Alexander Ljung

Blog: http://alexanderljung.com/

a creative entrepreneur with much love for and interest in music, technology, media, arts, research and traveling.
Contact through skype:jungsthlm or send me an email at mail [at] alexanderljung [dot] com.

Soundcloud Digital Footprints:

twitter: @soundcloud
Blog: http://blog.soundcloud.com
Tech Crunch Coverage 2009 / 10 / 01
Arctic Startup’s in depth coverage
Crunchbase Company profile

Jury Motivation:

Eric and Alex are entrepreneurs of the truly modern cut, and by passion and brilliance they have lifted SoundCloud to what may become the YouTube of music. Great use, real design, a loving geek factor AND STILL a viable business case.
— Joakim Jardenberg

Meet Joakim and the rest of the jury here

Final Words:

Soundcloud has been truly a musical revolution inspiring concepts like citysounds.fm. They were also part of the recent London music hackday festival, and I am sure the guys stirred up the scene quite much there too. We wish Eric and Alex the very best for their endeavors.

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1. jardenberg kommenterar – 2009-09-30 — jardenberg unedited says:

   September 30, 2009 at 05:31

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