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    Entrepreneurship and the Rock Scene

    May 31, 2022 3 minutes
    By Glenn Thaxton

    In the summer of 1956, I was 8 years old. It was then that the concept of entrepreneurship entered my consciousness. Some kids come to know it by setting up lemonade stands. I discovered it through the lens of imagination.

    The results were not always good, but some ideas resulted in a profit.

    My family was rich in a variety of ways, but an abundance of money was not one of them. All my friends had young parents who were existing with noses 1 inch above

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