LLC vs S Corp – Which Business Type is Right for Me? Whether you’re just starting a business or thinking of changing your business structure, a common first step is comparing LLC vs. S corp. While a limited liability company and S corporation share many qualities, they also have distinct differences. Get familiar with each before deciding which might be right for you. The similarities LLCs and S corps have much in common: Limited liability protection. Differences in ownership and formalities Ownership. LLCs can have an unlimited number of members; S corps can have no more than 100 shareholders (owners). Ongoing formalities. Required formalities for S corporations include: Adopting bylaws, issuing stock, holding initial and annual director and shareholder meetings, and keeping meeting minutes with corporate records. Differences in management Owners of an LLC can choose to have members (owners) or managers manage the LLC.
Other differences Other differences between S corps and LLCs include: Existence. Making your choice. The US' Top Game Design School Will Now Publish Its Own Games. How Videogames Are Saving the Symphony Orchestra. Francesca Buchalski leaned heavily on plastic foam, floral wire and other craft-store staples to assemble evening wear for her first orchestra concert last month at Philadelphia’s Mann Center for the Performing Arts. The 15-year-old Allentown, N.J., sophomore is part of a new generation of symphony patron that is invigorating the bottom-line performance of concert halls across the U.S.
She dressed as Link, the elfin warrior from “The Legend of Zelda,” a series of Nintendo Co. NTDOY 3.03 % videogames that inspired the night’s program. Once considered a gimmick, performances featuring videogame music are now a regular part of pops orchestra programming. “You can no longer just sit there and play Beethoven,” said Andrew Litton, music director of the Colorado Symphony and the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Videogame performances offer a full orchestra—trumpets, harps and other classical instruments—plus choirs and jumbo video screens that synchronize gameplay footage to the music. Survey on Composing for Video Games and Game Sound Design.
About the Game Audio Industry Survey The game development web site, Gamasutra, recently published the results of their annual game developer salary survey. This year, the results were somewhat puzzling, with “audio” salaries coming in higher than every other discipline except “business and management.” Part of the reason for this unexpected result is that audio, more than most other game disciplines, has a very high percentage of non-salaried freelancers, which are unaccounted for in the Gamautra survey.
Gamasutra also commented on the “smaller pool of respondents,” (33 "audio professionals" completed the survey) causing the results to be “more easily skewed.” With that in mind, we created a survey that attempted to more accurately capture the issues of contracts, terms and compensation in game audio. Our goals were to have a survey that: • Reflected the freelancer segment of our industry • We agressively promoted to increse response rate GameSoundCon Game Audio Industry Survey 2015. America’s Fastest Growing Jobs. Some occupations are better positioned to capitalize on economic, demographic, and workplace trends than others.
From 2005 through 2014, for example, employment of service unit operators in natural resources industries grew by nearly 218%, the most of any occupation. Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on occupational employment changes from 2005 through 2014, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 10 fastest growing jobs in the country. Click here to see the 10 fastest growing jobs. Click here to see the 10 fastest shrinking jobs. Three of the fastest growing jobs are directly related to the country’s oil boom and rising oil prices. Higher energy prices often lead to more exploration, both the search for new wells and the development of innovative ways to extract oil and gas from unconventional sources. Demographic changes, too, are responsible for the rapid increase in the number of workers in some fields. The population is also getting older. America's fastest growing (and fastest shrinking) jobs. The economic upheavals of the last decade brought dramatic changes to the U.S. labor market.
Millions of Americans lost jobs, and to this day, many occupations remain below their pre-recession employment levels. In the hardest hit industries, total employment fell by half. Some will bounce back. For example, the collapse of the U.S. housing market crushed the construction industry as new home starts fell from 24.9 million in 2005 to 6.6 million in 2009.
But as the economy continues to recover, expect a rebound in construction-related occupations. Other occupations may be on the way out for good. But new jobs are taking their place. To determine the fastest-shrinking and fastest-growing occupations this Labor Day, 24/7 Wall St. used Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for 2005 and 2014. Click ahead for America’s fastest-shrinking and fastest growing jobs. No. 10 Fastest Growing: Residential Advisors > Total employed: 95,750. GameSoundCon Video Game Music and Sound Design Conference | MSN says "Composer" 2nd fast growing job in us. We figured out why. A recent article by MSN made me do a double take. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Music Directors and Composers experienced the second fastest job growth in the US over the past 10 years.
In the past decade that category experienced a job growth of a stunning 154.1%, second only to “Service Unit Operators, Oil, Gas and Mining.” The MSN article went on to state that school budget cuts may hinder future growth, noting that many “music directors and composers” are employed by elementary schools and high schools, and implied the huge growth over the decade was fueled by this area. Except that it clearly wasn’t. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, from 2003 to 2013 the number of elementary and secondary school teachers increased only 1%. That is compared with the 154% increase in the number of composers and music directors. So where are all the new composer jobs coming from? But a more thorough analysis of the data shows something significant. The Mindset of Business. Image sourced on Wikimedia Commons.
Click image to view source Guest Contribution by April Tucker Early in my career, I watched a couple studios crumble first hand. One was a music studio that went bankrupt because the owner made some poor choices. The other was a post studio that laid off most of the staff in one day; “Black Wednesday,” we called it. I had mixed feelings knowing I’d own a business someday. You’re never too small to act like a business If you have ever taken a freelance or contract gig, you have a business. Defining your brand The way you present yourself in business should match who you are and what you want to do.
Be realistic about your skill level and experience Have you ever been to a restaurant where the menu had way too many options? How not to do business While it may seem like our work is product-based (films, tv shows, games), we are actually service providers in a service-based industry. Finding out rates There’s no budget www.proaudiogirl.com. SCL Seminar: Make More Music. Make More Money. Video games at theme parks: Interactivity takes a vacation - Fortune. Tencent makes more money than EA or Activision as global spending embraces PC, mobile over consoles | GamesBeat | Games | by Jeff Grubb. The biggest game publisher in the world isn’t responsible for Call of Duty or FIFA — it’s the Chinese company that owns League of Legends.
Blockbuster games still make for a lucrative business model, but free-to-play has turned Tencent into the biggest publisher in terms of game revenues, according to a report from market-research firm NewZoo. That Chinese company holds a majority stake in League of Legends developer Riot and a minority share of Gears of War studio Epic Games. Those subsidiaries’ games, along with Tencent’s Chinese releases, helped the company generate $3.48 billion in the first half of 2014. That’s 50 percent more than the next closest publisher, Electronic Arts, whose games have made $2.34 billion during the same period. NewZoo provided a look at the top 10 companies in terms of game revenues, and it shows that not only is Tencent the highest-grossing, but it is also one of the fastest growing publishers as well. Image Credit: NewZoo Electronic Arts Inc. Game Revenues of Top 25 Companies up 17%, Totaling $25Bn. Sep 30 2014 Today, Newzoo released its new Top 25 Public Companies by Game Revenues ranking, comparing performance in the first half year of 2014 with the same period a year ago.
The ranking is a result of Newzoo’s continuous financial analysis effort and showcases an industry flush with vitality, illustrated by strong continued growth of mobile games and the boost provided by the introduction of next generation consoles. The top 25 companies generated over $25bn in the first half of 2014, an impressive jump of $3bn, or 17%, compared to same period in 2013. Tectonic Rumbles as Tencent Speeds Out of Sight The Top 5 ranking seem deceptively calm, with Tencent holding steady at pole position and the other “usual suspects” jostling for the remaining positions in the Top 5: EA, Activision Blizzard, Sony and Microsoft. Google and Apple join Battle for Global Runner-Up Two “not-so-usual” suspects are joining the race for a top 5 position: Apple and Google. Relevant Links: How to Get the Job When You Don't Have the Experience | James C. Study: Video games causing spike in music composer employment. Nearly every video game today needs some type of sound and/or music to match the visuals, and with the advent of mobile, social and casual gaming in the past few years, this has resulted in more video game composers being hired.
That’s the finding from a study done by SoundCon, which took a USA Today report from a few weeks ago about the top-10 fastest-growing jobs and dug a little deeper to find out how video games have impacted the employment of music composers. The USA Today study found that music directors and composers accounted for the third-fastest growing job sector, with a 178 percent 10-year job growth rate according to statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. USA Today noted more original music in commercials and movies as a cause for this. But using that same data from the BLS, SoundCon found that the number of composing jobs remained flat until 2009, when growth in the space took off. SoundCon is based in Seattle and runs the GameSoundCon conference every year.
Www.gamasutra.com/salarysurvey2014.pdf. The Audio Spotlight. The Myth of the “Working Composer” It’s unfortunate when dated stereotypes outlive their “use by” date, but that’s exactly what happens when the term “working composer” is defined by Hollywood film music types as a busy Hollywood composer working on a busy network series. For those sad folks still living in the past, the 90s called and they want their definition back. There’s no doubt that the 1980s and early 1990s proved to be a very busy time for composers, largely in Hollywood. Music libraries were nowhere near as popular or numerous as they are today, and the number of television series being scored weekly with live players was impressive.
In these years, “working composer” could indeed be defined as a busy Hollywood composer working on a network series. And the ability to write, orchestrate and conduct for live players was often a requirement, often effectively weeding out the amateurs, hacks and posers. The bottom line for composers? 10 Life Lessons From A Navy Seal. I Will Always Remember #4. Naval Admiral William H. McRaven returned to his alma mater last week and spoke to the graduates with lessons he learned from his basic SEAL training. Here’s his amazing Commencement Address at University of Texas at Austin 2014 from Business Insider. The University’s slogan is,“What starts here changes the world.”I have to admit—I kinda like it. “What starts here changes the world.”Tonight there are almost 8,000 students graduating from UT.That great paragon of analytical rigor, Ask.Com says that the average American will meet 10,000 people in their lifetime.That’s a lot of folks.But, if every one of you changed the lives of just ten people—and each one of those folks changed the lives of another ten people—just ten—then in five generations—125 years—the class of 2014 will have changed the lives of 800 million people.800 million people—think of it—over twice the population of the United States.
Watch the video. Share this with your friends and family by clicking the button below. Advice for the Emerging Composer: Competitions – Blog – Eric Whitacre. Ah, composition competitions; there are hundreds, maybe thousands, every year, all over the world. Should you enter? Should you not? I’ve entered a lot of them over the years, and based on my personal experience the answer is yes. Competitions are a good thing, and offer a number of benefits to the emerging composer, as long as you know what those benefits are. To wit: Exposure. You’ll finish the piece. It will steel your will and prepare you for a career filled with rejection.
But here’s the thing: I’m glad I’ve never won. That’s an important point to remember: it is injustice. Don’t worry about winning. Finally, and this is a big point: I never enter a competition that requires me to submit my application with a fee. So go out there and apply, dear friends, with head held high.
How to Get a Job at Google, Part 2. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — HOW’S my kid going to get a job? There are few questions I hear more often than that one. In February, I interviewed Laszlo Bock, who is in charge of all hiring at Google — about 100 new hires a week — to try to understand what an employer like Google was looking for and why it was increasingly ready to hire people with no college degrees. Bock’s remarks generated a lot of reader response, particularly his point that prospective bosses today care less about what you know or where you learned it — the Google machine knows everything now — than what value you can create with what you know.
With graduations approaching, I went back to Google to ask Bock to share his best advice for job-seekers anywhere, not just at Google. Here is a condensed version of our conversations: You’re not saying college education is worthless? “My belief is not that one shouldn’t go to college,” said Bock. What are those traits? A lot of work, he added, is no longer tied to location. Report: Clash of Clans generates $654,000 per day. Don't be fooled by the "micro" in microtransactions. For SuperCell's free-to-play mobile hit Clash of Clans, microtransactions are big business. According to AppData information supplied to Business Insider, Clash of Clans generates $654,000 in daily revenue from the purchase of add-on content, booster packs, and other forms of downloadable content. Clash of Clans is a strategy game where you must build and protect your village. The game originally launched for iOS devices in 2012 before coming to Android last year.
Finnish creator Supercell recently sold a controlling interest in the company for $1.5 billion. Supercell has been pushing Clash of Clans fairly vigorously. Why the Progress You Make in the Practice Room Seems to Disappear Overnight. How to Become the Best at What You Do (In Music, Sound, Writing, or Anything Else) How Zynga went from social gaming powerhouse to has-been. Four Ways Google+ Can Help You Land a Job - Business. 10 fastest-growing jobs in the USA. 13 Reasons You're Not As Successful As You Should Be by Jim Kukral. TO YOU ASPIRING ARTISTS...FROM JOE MADUREIRA by `LeSeanThomas on deviantART. Adam Saltsman's Blog - Making Art for a Living. Moving to LA. A New Education for a New Theatre | The Clyde Fitch Report.
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