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Okay, I’m ready.

After read­ing a hand­ful of arti­cles mak­ing ten­u­ous con­nec­tions between entre­pre­neur­ship and music, including :

• The Noto­ri­ous CEO: Ten Startup Com­mand­ments from Big­gie Smalls
• Being like The Sex Pis­tols can help your startup?

I’ve decided to come out and share my favorite startup music.

Dirt, by The Stooges, is a proto-punk cut that sprawls for seven-minutes, brood­ing and smol­der­ing. It never cli­maxes or burns out, it just per­sists and dri­ves forward.

Any­way, I believe this song should be the mantra for boos­t­rap­pers, in par­tic­u­lar those that prac­tice the lean startup method­ol­ogy.

Ooh, I been dirt / And I don’t care / Cause I’m burn­ing inside / I’m just a yearn­ing inside / And I’m the fire o’ life.

With­out fur­ther ado, DIRT: