Joe McGuire is founder and President of McGuire Capital, a business services company. He is the former President and CEO of high-end audio company Tweeter, Inc., and prior to that post served as the company’s CFO/CIO.
Featuring four seasoned music business executives – David Avery of Powderfinger Promotions, Bernard Chiu of First Act, Steve Walter of The Cutting Room and Joe McGuire, formerly of Tweeter – discuss a number of topics of interest to music business entrepreneurs for an audience at Berklee College of Music. Among the things they discuss are: hiring your dream team, finding a balance between work and life, growing your business, and honing the instincts and skills that will give you the drop on your competition.
Joe McGuire, former CEO of the audio equipment chain Tweeter, discusses at the Berklee Music Business Seminar how the demands that your job places on your time changes as you move up the chain of responsibility, and the impact that this has on the time you have for other things.
Joe McGuire, former CEO of the audio equipment chain Tweeter, discusses at the Berklee Music Business Seminar the art of conducting job interviews, and how to hire people who will make your company great. He focuses in particular on the difference between a diversity of personalities and a diversity of values, and how each can affect your operation, and on making sure that you hire the right people for positions of key responsibility.
Joe McGuire, former CEO of the audio equipment chain Tweeter, shares his thoughts on learning from your mistakes as your career develops – no matter whether you’re an executive or a freelance session musician.
Joe McGuire, former CEO of the audio equipment chain Tweeter, discusses the company’s expansion and subsequent bankruptcy and sale at the Berklee Music Business Seminar.
Joe McGuire, former CEO of the audio equipment chain Tweeter, answers an audience question at the Berklee Music Business Seminar about how to handle problems that arise from growing your company by discussing the strains that different corporate cultures place on a merger or acquisition.
Joe McGuire, former CEO of the audio equipment chain Tweeter, discusses his new venture, a consulting firm called McGuire Capital, and what in his career has prepared him for this endeavor.
Joe McGuire, former CEO of the audio equipment chain Tweeter, responds to an audience question at the Berklee Music Business Seminar about the process of taking a company public. He discusses the things that change –for better or worse – when you go public, the signs that your company is prepared to make the move, and whether going public in today’s environment is still in general a worthwhile strategy.
Joe McGuire, former CEO of the audio equipment chain Tweeter, takes us inside the company’s naming rights and sponsorship deals with Great Woods, an amphitheatre in New England, and with other music venues nationwide. He discusses the marketing spend that went into financing the deal and how the deal was structured, and assesses the campaign’s success in some of the markets in which it ran.
Joe McGuire, former CEO of the audio equipment chain Tweeter, responds to an audience question at the Berklee Music Business Seminar asking for advice for young entrepreneurs by discussing how one can balance family obligations and career obligations.
