CNET News Daily Podcast: Charting the rise and fall of a music start-up

CNET News reporter Greg Sandoval joins the podcast to talk about his multipart series on the once-promising music start-up SpiralFrog, which folded last year.

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Aug. 11, 2009 12:41 p.m. PT

CNET News reporter Greg Sandoval joins the podcast to talk about his multipart series on the once-promising music start-up SpiralFrog, which folded last year as a result of factors including inexperienced and divided leadership, wild spending, and strategic missteps. He talks about what lessons the saga might hold for other start-ups.

That, plus other headlines of the day on Tuesday's CNET News Daily Podcast.

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