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Article: Meeting the entrepreneurial challenge. (7 magazine founders who challenged the odds)
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- Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management
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- July 1, 1986
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Meeting the entrepreneurial challenge
It's tough when you're allergic to fear
BY ROBERT NYLEN PUBLISHER NEW ENGLAND MONTHLY
You'll have to go somewhere else in this issue if you want to hear from a real entrepreneur. But please read on if you'd like to know how starting a magazine can give you hives.
You see, I'm no entrepreneur. Before I started New England Monthly, I'd never started anything--never opened a laundromat, or a fast-food franchise, or even a lemonade stand. I have been a car washer (and dryer), a space salesman, a plastic grinder, a writer (oh, so briefly), and a manager. For five years I was even an associate ...