With Google for Creators done, what's next?

In this week's Scene, Adam Gold takes a good look at the complicated and at-times-contentious relationship between Music Row's content creators and the online marketers of Google and its YouTube unit. The sold-out Google for Creators confab earlier this month provided another opportunity to further close what was once a chasm. The long-term goal for its main backer is to get some Google boots on the ground.

"Google proper will never put an office here," says FLO founder Mark Montgomery. "YouTube, however, would."

Montgomery refers in particular to YouTube's new Creators Spaces enterprise. In the video-sharing site's quest to become in essence a boundless cable TV package, it has started funding satellite Creators Spaces in cities like New York, Tokyo and L.A. "And we want the next one here," Montgomery says.

Apr 25, 2013 12:09 PM

Entrepreneurs gobble up Google advice

Cadre of 'Googlers' descend on Music City to further enlighten local entrepreneur community
Apr 20, 2012 7:03 AM

2012 Entrepreneurs of the Year – Part III

Our final group of this year's honorees includes the man who made Madonna's Super Bowl dazzle
Apr 17, 2012 7:04 AM
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How not to spend your start-up cash

Local entrepreneur and consultant Mark Montgomery shows up in this month's Entrepreneur magazine with some thoughts about designing workspaces that help young companies create the right environment juice growth. And what not do: "When I go into a startup burning $300,000 a month, and they've got posh offices with great furniture, I immediately think the leadership team's priorities are in the wrong place."

Sep 12, 2011 1:18 PM

Back in the Flo

Mark Montgomery, co-founder of groundbreaking Nashville music tech firm Echomusic, has a new commercial venture [From our print edition featured in Monday's City Paper]
May 16, 2011 12:13 AM