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Why Be An Entrepreneur?  (and why not?) Some Observations on Entrepreneurship LIS 478: Information Entrepreneurship Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science April 16, 2009 Timothy Rowe
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Why be an entrepreneur?

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