Glad to see somebody finally put to words what's been knocking around my head for quite some time now. Although it's not a state that's exclusive to either musi

Glad to see somebody finally put to words what's been knocking around my head for quite some time now. Although it's not a state that's exclusive to either musicians or entrepreneurs (as others in this thread have noted), I think it's an analogy that seems to resonate more deeply with people in general. I know I've seen it mentioned here that startups are the new 'rock bands' (in the sense that success/fame-thirsty people are now forming companies instead of bands to fulfill their dreams), and that's a comparison that everyone understands, because who hasn't fantasized about being in a wildly famous rock band at one point? In fact, I'm not sure why this is even an analogy; in my mind, musicians ARE entrepreneurs. I'm currently in the process of recording my first album as a solo musician, and founding a music related startup at the same time (http://www.tabrat.com/ http://www.tabrat.com/), and can already see the similarity of the hurdles I will have to face on both frontiers. I would imagine this connection to be painfully obvious to any musician working on a startup though. To elaborate on this perspective, you could say record labels are analogous to investors in the startup world (major labels being like larger VCs, and independent labels being like Angels), where they could potentially approach you, but most likely you'll end up pitching your product/music to a lot of them with marginal success, if not deciding to just completely bootstrap as an 'indie' artist. And there are plenty more 'connections' like that to be made, so I really think musicians are a subset of entrepreneurs, not just merely their analogs.