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Getting Started: Bob Dylan in New York, September 1961

You don’t automatically think of the iconic songwriter and poet Bob Dylan as an entrepreneur. But he sure is one — and a rather shrewd one to boot. He started from scratch and built up the Bob Dylan brand, now in its 50th year, to spectacular heights.

Dylan dropped out of the University of Minnesota during his sophomore year, determined to make it as a folk singer. He left the Twin Cities and arrived in Greenwich Village, New York City in January 1961, with no connections and very little money.

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