Music search startup SoundHound partners with Spotify for instant streaming

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Music search and discovery company SoundHound has signed a contract with the provider of digital music Spotify to allow SoundHound in Europe with instant access to the last directory (more than 15 million tracks). From the sound of it partnership does not allow users outside Europe to bridge this specific just yet.

Today, SoundHound iOS users and Android devices that also subscribe to Spotify premium will be paid to the option "Play now in Spotify" after identifying a song via the service discovery and music recognition. This goes for users, both free and paid apps SoundHound.

SoundHound users in Europe do not subscribe to the Spotify premium will be redirected to a page inviting them to become Spotify users before listening to the track.

Direct competitor Shazam (bis), SoundHound "Sound2Sound» tech looking for sound against sound, thus bypassing the traditional transformation sound in text.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, SoundHound is backed by global catalyst partners, TransLink capital, Walden venture capital and other investors, Silicon Valley.

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Lean startup thinker Eric Ries: "don't be in a hurry to get big, be in a hurry to have a great product"

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Each tech founder thinks he or she works lean startup. But what does this mean exactly? In a video interview above, Eric Ries, who coined the term Lean startup and is the author of upcoming book of the same name, explains his theory of learning by a small number of the first clients to enhance and improve your product before exposing it to a wider audience. "Don't be in a hurry to get big", he sums up the results at the end of our conversation, "to be in a hurry to have a great product."

RIES argues that the greatest advantage of the entrepreneur is their obscurity. If your first product sucks, at least not too many people will know about it. But this is the best time to make mistakes, provided that you learn from them, to make the product better. "It is inevitable that the first product is going to be bad in a sense," he said. Lean startup methodology is to systematically test product ideas company.

Fail early and often. "Our goal is to learn as soon as possible," he says. He also claims that launches start their products quietly until they figure out what clients really want. We discuss how color could use these recommendations. RIES also gives me a crash course in some of the more popular Lean startup, terms such as "minimum viable product", "product market fit" or "construction measure know feedback loops."

But you can build lean run in bubble (if we still have one)? "This is even more important," he says, go meat, when each throwing money at "the success of the theatre and to demonstrate vanity metric. "Vanity metrics are the numbers that you want to post on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad," he says. Don't believe their own propaganda, or run your company on these metrics. Useful metrics that actually allow you to understand what drives your growth are much more important.

RIES of lean startups in writes startup lessons and will serve to break the SF.

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SEC Watch: cloud storage startup raises $ 18.6 mln Box.net more

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Box.NET raises $ 18.6 million of the 35 million Australian dollars round according to the SEC filing. We have confirmed this with the company. This brings its total funding to $ 96 million.

A field that has 6 million users and stores 300 million documents — Enterprise cloud storage platform that comes with the collaboration, the functionality of social and mobile. The field has become more than just storage platform Fils and became a full-fledged joint applications, where companies can actually talk about updates to the document, synchronize files remotely and even add features of Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite, hurt, and others.

Box has just raised $ 48 million from Andreessen Horowitz and other earlier this year, but the company's CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie tells us that the mighty venture market, high rates of growth of the company and in the cloud, the new zoom round made sense. He said this is a follow-up round with (d) raise earlier this year, and it will attract investors and new as well.

Round was not closed completely and can change, said Levie. In making lists of the current investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson, United States venture partners and venture scale.

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