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...
It does seems hard to pick someone's brain, or pitch them your idea, while trying to lay them at the same time. Getting an honest opinion out of someone and swooning them seem to be mutually exclusive goals.
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.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 21.0 ms ] threadNever forget, MTV and Techcrunch are both the same kind of lie.
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)
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html