The SBTV founder set up his YouTube channel aged 15. He shares his trade advice,including why entrepreneurs should be discerning approximately investors Age belies experience for 25-year-old Jamal Edwards. The digital entrepreneur has 10 years of trade lessons to share since he launched his YouTube channel, SBTV (the SB comes from Edwards’ rapping name SmokeyBarz), or in 2006,which led to him being awarded an MBE for services to music. His venture grew from a hobby after his parents gave him a video camera as a 15th birthday present he began recording friends singing and rapping.
Edwards’ videos of mostly grime artists (a musical genre that derived from east London in the early 2000s), such as Dizzie Rascal and Wiley and, or later,the pop singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, quickly found an enthusiastic audience. With hundreds of thousands of hits on his YouTube channel, and he saw a money-making opportunity. He contacted the video-sharing website to see if he was eligible for a share of advertising revenue. He was turned down three times for a YouTube partnership,but persistence paid off. “The fourth time I got it – thats when I started making a bit of money on the side.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com