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Being like The Sex Pistols can help your startup?
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoLesson 1: it's more important for your bass player to be outrageous than skillful.
- JarekS 17y agoWell... the names like Sid Vicious or Johnny Rotten say a lot... ;)
- pawartur 17y agoI like the idea a lot... And I think we can draw some interesting parallels to other kinds of artistic activities. Let's see... My mother's a scupltress. Anybody :)?
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoI bet a sufficiently motivated essayist could draw comparisons between, say, hacking and painting.
- parenthesis 17y agoArguably, Malcolm McLaren was the entrepreneur in the Sex Pistols story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McLaren#The_Sex_Pistols http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McLaren#The_Sex_Pistols
- JarekS 17y agoWasn't he more like a VC or Angel Investor?
- bravura 17y agoNo, Malcolm was the mastermind. He saw the punk trend, was a fixture in the scene, and figured out the right positioning for a new group and drove his product into the appropriate market channel. He wasn't the public face of what he built, but he put the Sex Pistols together and made them tour and got his wife Vivienne Westwood to style them.
- JarekS 17y agoWhat is exactly what I expect from the VC (early stage VC). Find group of talented people, with good idea, then help to position the product on the market using portfolio companies as helpers and his brand for PR. Style everything, and then sell thru the IPO.
- kingkongreveng_ 17y agoSex Pistols were a boy band. A marketing creation.
- pstuart 17y agoBah. "Never Mind the Bollocks" still sounds good to this day.
- relwell 17y agoI had too much to say in response to this, so I just wrote it in a blog post. http://robertelwell.blogspot.com/2010/03/please-kill-me-how-being-like-sex.html http://robertelwell.blogspot.com/2010/03/please-kill-me-how-...
- pedalpete 17y agoI think your rebuttal is missing a very important point. Though you may not agree that The Sex Pistols were the best product, there is little doubt that they were the brand that is heavily associated with the genre. In another start-up comparison, The Sex Pistols weren't the best technical solution, but they got users.
- relwell 17y agoUsers don't matter if the product breaks and never gets fixed.
- JarekS 17y agoGreat post!
- lucifer 17y agoSex Pistols rebuttal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhlx0-LLDE0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhlx0-LLDE0
- pavelludiq 17y agoObviously a very content free article. As a proud punk, i call it bullshit. Although hacker culture is a lot like punk culture. But thats true of almost any creative subculture filled with misfits with attitude problems.