VenturePeople, Aug. 1

Here are five vignettes on entrepreneurs and their ventures, including some sage advice from the founder and former owner of Bandbox, plus updates on Chrysalis Ventures and other businesses. Read it here.

Social Chutes buys local ventures

Social Chutes, a new holding company, has bought Bandbox and RedRovor from two young Nashville entrepreneurs who may look beyond Music for their next gigs, reported right here.

TrakLok to VCs

The Southeast Venture Conference announced Knoxville-based TrakLok is among presenters. A third round of presenters will soon be issued. KNS reports. Yesterday, we posted Bandbox will also present.

Bandbox pitches VCs

Bandbox, the Nashville-area startup that offers the Redrovor application to socialize music retailing, will soon present during the Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC). Brian Peterson, founder (don't you love those LinkedIn photos?) Bandbox here. A NashvillePost blogpost; VNC's earlier update on the company.

StartMySong allied with Bandbox

StartMySong has allied with Bandbox to integrate the Bandbox music e-commerce widget to enable singer-songwriters with StartMySong pages to sell their demos and fully produced songs. Today's release here. Earlier VNC coverage on Bandbox here.

Nth Track: Digital Music

Universal Music Group Distribution partners with TuneCore for release of artists' music. The release is out today. Also released this week, SONY Music Entertainment and EpicTilt's TapStar, a rythmn music game for iPhone users. See also our recent story on Bandbox and PassAlong Networks, and our earlier blurb on local iPhone app efforts. Love Don Tate's art at left (Austin American-Statesman).

SONY-IODA could crowd NVdigital startups

No sooner had the electrons dried on our story about Bandbox and PassAlong Networks, than we discovered today's release about the SONY-IODA alliance to create a new distribution and services network for the "independent label community." This move could create a bigger crowd, sooner than many might have expected. Here's the IODA release. Here's our story about the life-and-death cycle of a couple of local digital music startups, Bandbox and a new venture by former PassAlong CEO Dave Jaworski.