Mike McCready is co-founder and CEO of Platinum Blue, a start up company that has gained mainstream awareness for its innovative Music Xray™ service that helps the music industry predict hit songs. He’s a leading voice of the emerging new music industry and in 2005 Harvard Business School published a case study on his work in the fields of marketing and strategy at a start-up. The case study continues to be taught at Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, Kellogg and many other top business schools around the world.

Mike grew up in Nebraska and now lives in Manhattan and Barcelona, Spain and spends much of his time traveling to cities in Europe, Asia and Latin America for business. He’s often a guest on Spanish television and radio who want an American’s perspective on whatever topic happens to be in the news. For further info and blog postings see www.mikemccready.com.

Blog Entries by Mike McCready

George Carlin's Soul Irretrievably Resting On a Rooftop

Posted June 23, 2008 | 10:03 AM (EST)


George Carlin liked to say, "When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat."

He had an important impact on 20th century America. His "Seven Dirty Words" routine was central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C....

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Scott McClellan Should Now Become a Pro Bono Investigative Journalist

Posted May 30, 2008 | 12:39 PM (EST)


Of this whole Scott McClellan affair there is one fact that particularly stands out to me. In order to raise the argument that Scott McClellan may be disgruntled, the mainstream television media is pointing out that he was "forced out" of the White House back in April 2006. My question...

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Fight Hillary! Fight!

Posted May 7, 2008 | 03:00 PM (EST)


Now, before I get into this I want to say that party unity is very important. I will vote for and vigorously support this fall whoever gets the Democratic nomination. It will be up to the loser to do his or her best to unite the party and I will...

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The New DNC Ad

Posted April 22, 2008 | 07:05 AM (EST)


Have you seen the new ad the DNC is going to run against McCain? Apparently the Democrats are calling McCain out and they may be doing it today in order to take advantage of network and cable news coverage of the Pennsylvania Primary. It doesn't sound like the DNC has...

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John McCain's Simpler Tax Proposal Is Actually More Complex - No Kidding

Posted April 20, 2008 | 02:59 PM (EST)


In Spain the government collects value added tax (VAT) on exchanges between retailers and consumers. It's similar to the sales tax in that it's an indirect tax that is collected from someone other than the person who actually bears the cost of the tax (namely the seller rather than...

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A Majority of Women in Spain's Cabinet Not OK With Italy's Berlusconi

Posted April 18, 2008 | 08:50 AM (EST)


José Luís Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's recently re-elected Prime Minister has announced that his cabinet will, for the first time in history, be made up of more women than men. Of the 17 cabinet members nine are women. Zapatero is a self-proclaimed feminist and his previous cabinet sported an equal number...

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We're All On The Same Team Folks!

Posted April 17, 2008 | 01:06 AM (EST)


I've been having a number of conversations with Democrat friends who are avidly supporting Obama's race for the nomination. I respect that and have said before that while I support Hillary Clinton I have nothing but praise for Senator Obama and will support him if he wins the nomination. What...

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My Night With Elton And Hillary

Posted April 10, 2008 | 03:35 PM (EST)


Last night, I was fortunate to attend the Elton John concert / Hillary Clinton fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan (never a lack of things to do here). I've been supporting Hillary Clinton's tumultuous race for the nomination and in spite of the diminishing likelihood of her securing...

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Is America On The Right Path?

Posted September 11, 2007 | 05:13 PM (EST)


It's been six years since 9-11 and the question everyone is asking is, "are we safer"? All the news channels are filling air time with the multi sides of that issue. What we can all agree upon is that 9/11 changed our country. For as far as I can see...

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