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Tech Startups vs Rock Bands

by shanedanger on 4/24/10, 5:14 PM with 6 comments

As someone who's been in multiple bands and startups, I’ve realized the parallels between starting a rock band and starting a web company are pretty spot on...

  • by hexis on 4/24/10, 6:56 PM

    The most important similarity between a musician with a major label contract and an a venture-backed entrepreneur is that both people have sold a piece of the business. "If all goes well", both people will be making money for someone else.

    Never forget, MTV and Techcrunch are both the same kind of lie.

  • by starkfist on 4/24/10, 6:05 PM

    You missed "have sex with 4300 groupies" vs. "not have sex since that lucky break in college."

  • by wyclif on 4/25/10, 2:48 AM

    The rock music parallel to the "lean" startup, and why you shouldn't go the VC (major label) route is "The Problem With Music" by Steve Albini:

    http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

  • by rythie on 4/24/10, 8:58 PM

    I want my TechCrunch

    Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it

    You get the site on the TechCrunch

    That ain't workin' that's the way you do it

    Money for nothin' and your conferences for free

    (reference, in case you're too young to get it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZEzWwKJnY)