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Keep It Up Jugglers multitask faster'n greased lightnin' and feel the weight o' the world on their shoulders.

By Mark Henricks

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Joe Elias has a lot going on. He's trying to get a brand newbusiness, Write For Hollywood, off the ground. At the same time,he's figuring out how to offer script-evaluation services toaspiring screenwriters over the Internet. He's working tomanage a score of freelance script readers. He's reading,critiquing and editing scripts himself. Finally, the 24-year-old istrying to do the same thing as the customers of his two-personRedondo Beach, California, start-up-namely, marketing a script ofhis own.

The last may be the toughest of all. "I read recently thatthe odds of selling a screenplay in Hollywood are something like 1in 200,000," says Elias. "And I'm right there withmost of our clients, trying to do some writing myself."

Elias is a classic example of a Juggler, one of fiveentrepreneurial types identified by a nationwide study ofsmall-business owners for Pitney Bowes Inc. by YankelovichPartners. Twenty percent of the entrepreneurs surveyed areJugglers, which means they exhibit unusually high energy levels butcon-stantly feel under pressure. That's probably because, morethan other types of business owners, they try to do a lot, if noteverything, themselves.