How A Teenage Entrepreneur Built A Profitable Lyrics Site – with Milun Tesovic
Mark Suster, the venture capitalist who I interviewed recently, says that successful entrepreneurs live by the letters, JFDI — a variation on Nike’s “Just Do It” motto.
Milun Tesovic is an entrepreneur that started his business with that kind of attitude. He noticed that searches for lyrics were hot and that most web sites that offered them were full of errors. So at 16 he launched MetroLyrics.com. He just launched and trusted that he’d find a way to make it work.
Rather than shutting him down, he says the music industry was actually supportive of his site, and in April of last year, he even signed a deal with Gracenote for the rights to publish lyrics online.
Today he’s 24, runs the top lyrics site. In this interview, I asked him to show us how he did it.
Milun Tesovic is the Co-Founder and CTO of MetroLeap Media, which owns entertainment properties that showcase music, song lyrics and games through widgets, mobile apps, and popular websites — such as MetroLyrics.com.
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Hey, everyone it’s Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. And we’re continuing a series of interviews that I seem to be doing here with entrepreneurs that are little known whose companies don’t make it in, on the cover of Wired magazine month after month. Who don’t make it into the big tech blogs, but have successful businesses very often bootstrapped and are profitable and guys who are insanely clever at the way that they do business, including Milan Tesovic who you’re about to meet. Milan Tesovic co-founded MetroLeap Media. He, before that, background is actually interesting too, we’ll be talking about that. He escaped the war in Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia in the nineties. Did I say that right by the...
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