Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Being a toxic twin and faking it to you make it

As I said in my last blog. I used to play in bands when I was younger. And so have always loved reading about musicians that have made it. The parallels between musicians and entrepreneurs are many. I've been reading the latest steven tyler book Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir and he talks a lot about what I see/hear time and again. Fake it till you make it. His personality certainly comes through the prose and this book is certainly captivating for the audience. His early days were full of stories of pretending to be like mick jagger or pretending to actually be him.

The other parallel I see with the tech world is finding a partner he talks about finding his "mutant twin." Look at tech history and most big stories are started with 2 guys: google, twitter, microsoft, youtube, apple and so it goes on. Steve Tyler found his mutant or toxic twin Joe Perry (the guitarist.) I'll update later with what other interesting parallels I find. But a refreshing break from straight out entrepreneur books.

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