Don Dodge, now with Microsoft, was one of the guys on the Napster team back when it took the world by storm back in 2000. This is a great blog post about the things he learned and we can all learn from the great Napster failure.

It is extremely interesting to see what their business model was and how they viewed their future co-existing with the record industry. There was some money to be made, but the record industry would hear nothing of it. This is definitely a must read if you are in the start-up business.

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: How Napster changed the world – A look back 7 years later