Lady Gaga's Former Manager Launches Startup Accelerator SMASHD Labs

A new startup accelerator has come to the music world thanks to one of its most successful entrepreneurs and managers. Troy Carter, the man behind the scenes that has brought some of the biggest names in pop music to the masses, has launched SMASHD Labs, a program sponsored by his management and production company, Atom Factory, in the hopes of finding the best new companies and developing the talent and the ideas that a suffering industry needs.