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Name: 
 Max Rodriguez
Title: 
 Publisher
Company: 
 QBR/The Harlem Book Fair
Location: 
 New York, NY
What I do: 
 Publishing; Produce annual bookfairs; seminars & workshops
Web Site: 
 http://www.qbr.com;







Nature of Business: Publish a bi-monthly review of books, with a focus on writers of the African diaspora; Produce an annual bookfair in New York City, Buffalo, NY; Hartford, CT, and Detroit, MI.; Present literacy seminars and workshops.  Full company name: QBR The Black Book Review/The Harlem Book Fair.  Other website: www.harlembookfair.com 
To me, entrepreneurship means contributing to society from one's own particular perspective; filling a perceived need that has yet to be uncovered or sufficiently addressed. The power of successful entreprenuership is that it creates, or makes present, a new shared language, possibility, and point of view for a community, society, or nation. Hip-hop, and all of its permutations, is a modern-day example of the possibilities and effects of successful entreprenuership.
 

The most important lesson that I've learned is business entreprenuership, like life, is about knowledge, integrity and character.


I want to encourage you to understand that your past does not determine your future. Neither the best education nor the most priviledged upbringing guarantees a brilliant future. Only today and now matters. Every day is an opportunity to clear your slate and start, steadily, anew.
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