The Project Music Accelerator Gives Music-Minded Entrepreneurs a Note-Worthy Education The Tennessee-based boot camp program hits all the high notes for industry hopefuls and pulls strings to help them get started.

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You can't build a game-changing music-technology company without understanding the intricacies of the industry and the specific concerns of artists and executives. (Witness the shuttering of streaming music service Grooveshark.) That's the philosophy behind the Project Music Accelerator, a 14-week boot camp for idea-stage music-tech startups piloted by the Nashville Entrepreneurship Center in Tennessee.

"Music-minded entrepreneurs have unique needs," says program director Heather McBee, noting that the business is complex, networking is tough for outsiders and, unless you go to a college with a program focused on the industry, "there isn't an easy way to get an education."