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DESCRIPTION: Location: The Vaults (Events Room) \n\n Content of the Keynote
 : \n\n \n How Dan sold his company to the music powerhouse Fender \n Using
  data to fuel exponential growth \n Learning from transitioning from found
 ing\, to corporate and back to founding \n \n\n Meet Your Speaker \n\n  \n
 \n Dan Barry\, Co-Founder of Riffstation \n\n Dan Barry has found continuo
 us success in the startup world by combining his musical knowledge with a 
 long history of tech &amp\; research experience. With extensive experience
  in Audio DSP Development and Machine Hearing\, Dan has lectured at DIT on
  Music and Media Technology and developed audio processing algorithms for 
 several companies in the past from startups to multinationals\, most notab
 ly Sony\, who has been licensing Dan's sound source separation technology 
 patent since 2004. \n\n In 2011\, Dan co-founded and developed Riffstation
 \, an app that gives you chords for any song in the world synced with the 
 video or audio. Fender\, one of the world's most iconic guitar companies\,
  acquired Riffstation in 2015 and made Dan the Vice President of Research 
 and Development. After four years with Fender\, Dan is moving back into th
 e startup arena and we are excited to see what he comes up with next! \n\n
  About Riffstation \n\n Acquired by Electric guitar manufacturer Fender in
  2015\, Riffstation gives you chords for any song in your music library. Y
 ou can also slow the music down or speed it up\, transpose its pitch\, sel
 ect a portion of the track to loop and learn\, isolate instruments to hear
  them on their own\, play along with a metronome\, and view the chord shap
 es for guitar. \n
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T170754
LOCATION:Dogpatch Labs\, The chq Building\, Custom House Quay\, D1\, Dublin
 \, Ireland
ORGANIZER:mailto:jon@dogpatchlabs.com
SUMMARY:Keynote: How I Sold My SaaS Company to Fender
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dogpatchlabs/first-fridays-for-startups-keynote
 -sept-7th-2018
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dogpatchlabs/first-fridays-for-startups-keynote
 -sept-7th-2018
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