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P.T. 巴纳姆：奋斗与胜利·补录 392
P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导
In the fall of 1852 a proposition was made by certain parties to commence the publication of an illustrated weekly newspaper in the City of New York. The field seemed to be open for such an enterprise, and I invested twenty thousand dollars in the concern, as special partner, in connection with two other gentlemen, who each contributed twenty thousand dollars, as general partners. Within a month after the publication of the first number of the _Illustrated News_, which was issued on the first day of January, 1853, our weekly circulation had reached seventy thousand. Numerous and almost insurmountable difficulties, for novices in the business, continued however to arise, and my partners becoming weary and disheartened with constant over-exertion, were anxious to wind up the enterprise at the end of the first year. The good-will and the engravings were sold to _Gleasons Pictorial_, in Boston, and the concern was closed without loss.
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1852年秋，有人提议在纽约办一份插图周刊。巴纳姆觉得市场有空缺，就作为特殊合伙人投资2万美元，另外两位普通合伙人各投2万。1853年1月1日创刊后一个月，周发行量就达到7万份。但困难接踵而至，两个合伙人是新手，被持续的超负荷工作搞得疲惫不堪，第一年底就想收摊。最后他们把商誉和版画卖给了波士顿的格里森画报，公司关闭，但没有亏钱。巴纳姆的经验是：看准机会就投，但也要接受团队能力和耐力有限，及时退出不丢人。
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巴纳姆在自传中回忆他投资《插图新闻》周刊的经历。
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