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...
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.<p>Never forget, MTV and Techcrunch are both the same kind of lie.
The rock music parallel to the "lean" startup, and why you shouldn't go the VC (major label) route is "The Problem With Music" by Steve Albini:<p><a href="http://www.negativland.com/albini.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.negativland.com/albini.html</a>
I want my <i>TechCrunch</i><p>Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it<p>You <i>get</i> the <i>site</i> on the <i>TechCrunch</i><p>That ain't workin' that's the way you do it<p>Money for nothin' and your <i>conferences</i> for free<p>(reference, in case you're too young to get it: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZEzWwKJnY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZEzWwKJnY</a>)