Quote Originally Posted by Internal Error Records

i mean look at the facts.
most techno labels are started up by young men who
1) are under business educated.
2) have slim to no net work connections
3) offer very little more than the guy next to them
4) and dont have enough money to do it right.

hmmm... wonder why things may appear tuff.
To label these as "facts" is totally incorrect; moreover, this is what logicians call hasty generalizations...making a general claim based on a limited sample or a limited experience (i.e. you may know of 2,3, or 10 label owners like this, but it still does not speak for the whole lot OR most of them). If this is actually true, then you would need to poll hudreds of label owners to prove it, and I doubt that's been done. I'm not pointing this out to be superficial, but I take offense to being lumped into this category. Especially, since 1-4 does not categorize me at all...

We can sit here and go over again and again the reasons for the declining numbers and whine, complain, educate, inform, or a plethora of other claims to explain the numbers, but the bottom line is something needs to be done and at least discussing it publicly will hopefully lead to some progress.