{"id":5,"date":"2024-02-07T20:16:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T03:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2024-02-10T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T20:24:27","slug":"rationale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"3) Strengths, Areas for Growth, &#038; Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Strengths, Areas for Growth, and Conclusion<\/h1>\n<p>In this section, I&#8217;m going to highlight the strengths, areas for growth, and my conclusion from an Investor Perspective and an Education Venture Analyst.<\/p>\n<h1>Strengths<\/h1>\n<p>MakeMusic&#8217;s tagline is &#8220;Power Your Potential.&#8221; By powering your potential, the program is taking the traditional ways of learning and making it a lot more interactive and engaging for developing musicians. This program also allows educators to invest more time into &#8220;music-making&#8221; while still maintaining a hybrid of traditional learning. In this section, we will take a look at the financials that are public at this time.<\/p>\n<h4>Financials<\/h4>\n<p>According to cbinsights.com, they state that MakeMusic has raised $21.18 million over 5 funding rounds. Their last funding round was a loan for $1.5 million on May 1, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to rocketreach.co, MakeMusic&#8217;s annual revenue was $17 million.<\/p>\n<h4>Investors<\/h4>\n<p>As of 2020, there are 8 investors who have supported this venture.<\/p>\n<h4>Acquisitions<\/h4>\n<p><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">MakeMusic has acquired <\/span>2<span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0organizations. Their most recent acquisition was\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Upbeat Music App<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"component--field-formatter field-type-date_precision ng-star-inserted\" title=\"May 26, 2022\">May 26, 2022<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Areas for Growth<\/h1>\n<p>Looking through the different websites, a lot is not mentioned about their financials which could be concerning to potential investors. However, from an educators perspective, specifically music educators source educational materials via word of mouth as well as music education conventions.<\/p>\n<p>Where the company could grow is providing more transparency for financials. As an investor, it is good to know how it plays in the market.<\/p>\n<h1>Conclusion<\/h1>\n<p>In finding the financial data to provide for future investors, it was tough to find anything public. The website itself could provide more information on how it is doing in the market. Anything that was public, was not recent and dates back to 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strengths, Areas for Growth, and Conclusion In this section, I&#8217;m going to highlight the strengths, areas for growth, and my conclusion from an Investor Perspective and an Education Venture Analyst. Strengths MakeMusic&#8217;s tagline is &#8220;Power Your Potential.&#8221; By powering your potential, the program is taking the traditional ways of learning and making it a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21364,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522a1analystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}