Comments on: The Kurt Cobain Guide to Startup Success

By: BeatlesTrivia

BeatlesTrivia — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:24:56 +0000

“#4 Be careful who you marry.” A real laugh-out-loud moment, ha! I’d probably be suicidal too if I married Courtney Love.

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Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:31:54 +0000

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By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:03:02 +0000

Great Post !

There will never be another band or lead man like it !

The world lost a great one…

By: Ritesh Reddy

Ritesh Reddy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:54:00 +0000

LOL “Be careful who you marry.” You are classic man! and you waited till the very end to throw that one didn’t you. Rock on!

By: Miko

Miko — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:26:56 +0000

I wish some band would come along that good these days!

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“Me too” « JFDI.asia — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:47:45 +0000

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By: John Rosenfelder

John Rosenfelder — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:34:13 +0000

you know i love a nirvana fan, nice job brian!

as the college/metal radio promo person for dgc that worked on nevermind, i must point out a few slight inaccuracies:

butch vig worked w/sonic youth AFTER nirvana, but SY was the reason they chose their manager john silva and dgc as the label – we had done well with sonic youth.

sonic youth’s dirty tried to capitalize on kurt having said they were his favorite band and hired vig to help. it didn’t work that well, for many of the reasons you wrote about in this post – i.e. didn’t merge two ideas or markets smoothly, etc.

the goal at the marketing meeting was to sell 50K of nevermind, which would have been half what sonic youth’s goo had done the previous year.

eddie’s being a little coy – we had some resistance to nirvana even though “teen spirit” was one of the hottest songs in history.

those folks don’t work at radio stations anymore.

thanks for a great post!

By: How To Have (Not Be) Genius | The Creative Intelligence Blog

How To Have (Not Be) Genius | The Creative Intelligence Blog — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:31:58 +0000

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By: FitJerks Fitness Blog

FitJerks Fitness Blog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:35:33 +0000

Like they say… if you aren’t pissing a few people off or stirring the pot a little, you aren’t making your point hard enough.

And I like to make my points hard.

By: Dead Frank » Kurt Kobain’s Guide to Success

Dead Frank » Kurt Kobain’s Guide to Success — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:58:25 +0000

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