Reflection
The biggest mistake I made so far in this musical journey is underestimating the sheer volume of skill needed to make the KVaux project successful. I was under the impression that focusing and becoming good at music was enough.
I was naive.
Musical skills constitute around 10% of the necessary skills. I wager it might even be less.
A successful music project demands skills beyond just music. It takes skills in the visual arts (film making, photography, illustration), marketing, programming, project management, and more.
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At the heart of it, you’re trying to start a small business in a ruthless industry, where profit margins are cents on the dollar. It’s entrepreneurship not some ‘dream of making it big’. You can be one of the greatest musical talents out there but with no business strategy you’re a nobody. Just because it’s a creative field doesn’t mean it’s above the law of economics.
In music and any business endeavor really, you need to be scrappy, nimble and smart. Too many wrong moves and seed money vanishes (for those who have the foresight to acquire seed money to begin with).
I thought I had all the necessary skills to build a product but now I realized I’m still very far away but that’s O.K.. For now I’ll keep learning.
