HACKER Q&A
📣 helloiloveyou

How would you apply startup lessons to a solo musical career?


As the title says.

You are a singer and guitarrist that makes it's own songs. You play guitar better than how you sing, but you don't sing bad.

Do you apply the lean startup and put out a song on spotify as soon as possible? or do you do something else? How would you translate paul graham's essays into a music career?

  👤 simplecto Accepted Answer ✓
Start here: https://www.donpassman.com/

This is the bible of business in music industry.

Then study the business-end from Taylor Swift to Tycho to Post Malone and Sean Mendez. Oh, and especially Lil Nas X and what he did.

I would say there are a lot of lean ideas playing out in the music industry across genres -- you just need to translate what they are doing to how Eric Reis might do it :-)