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Music and technology veteran Alan Josef Kaplan
changed the world by launching the $18 million music
publishing and record label company Music West.

While at the top of this successful company, Kaplan
received the coveted Label of the Year award from
Billboard magazine for two years in a row, earned a
Gold and Platinum Album award from the
Recording Industry Association of America, and was
named one of the top 40 entrepreneurs under 40 by Entrepreneur Magazine. 

His label's best selling hit album held the #1 slot on the Billboard charts for a
record 104 weeks straight and remained on that chart for over 60 months.
 

Kaplan’s career began with McDonald's in management where he ranked #1
out of 251 managers worldwide in their corporate development program.
Kaplan also was Director of Store Operations with the 800 store, multi-billion
in sales global retailer of PCs, ComputerLand Corporation.
 
 Kaplan has applied his business ingenuity to solve challenges in the
businesses of media, marketing and technology.  He has served as an adviser
and consultant to a variety of ground-breaking new media and Internet
projects such as the first Internet Music Software company Headspace and
the Motorola Interactive Media Festival. 

 Kaplan founded clickPLAY, a media technology company based in Boulder,
Colorado.  clickPLAY survived the dot-com crash to become profitable by
signing contracts to provide video-on-demand technology in-the-face-of the
world-wide market downturn.
 
Kaplan again aims to change the world with Fast Ideas LLC by developing
the next generation of success stories for our clients and partners. 
 
Alan Kaplan and Fast Ideas are providing unique 
business advisory services in the US and around the world.