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The Creative Entrepreneur
A guide to Building a Successful Creative Business from Industry Titans
Carolyn Dailey(0)
About
Learn directly from the world's most inspiring creative entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Let their inspirational stories provide actionable business advice that allows you to achieve your full business potential in the creative industries.
The Creative Entrepreneur is a call to adventure, inviting you to think about creativity from a new perspective – how it can form the basis of a successful business, or a new way of looking at your career, helping you take your creativity, and your life, to new heights. Featuring stories of 10 high-profile creative leaders from across fashion, art, film, design, music gaming and more, these vital voices show that creators are also entrepreneurs, who harness business to achieve success. Through insightful analysis, accessible takeaways and practical snapshots summarizing business essentials, this book will empower creative people to use business to their advantage, increase the quality and quantity of your ideas, and convince people to support your vision. "This is a handbook of incalculable brilliance. You'll instinctively know the lessons that resonate with you." -Nile Rodgers
"I wish I had this book years ago when I started my business." -Thomas Heatherwick Carolyn Dailey is the founder of Creative Entrepreneurs, an international community empowering creatives to succeed personally and professionally. She has championed creative lives in the fields of design, music, architecture, film, fashion, publishing, and gaming-and in the heart of government at No. 10 Downing Street. Dailey has been named by Creative Review as one of the Top 50 Creative Leaders, by WIRED magazine as one of the Top 10 Women Digital Powerbrokers and by BIMA as one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs progressing the creative industries. She spent over 20 years as Time Warner's top executive in Europe, expanding the reach of HBO, CNN, Warner Bros. and Time Inc. She has given lectures at institutions including Cambridge University and Central St Martins, and regularly appears on Sky News.
The Creative Entrepreneur is a call to adventure, inviting you to think about creativity from a new perspective – how it can form the basis of a successful business, or a new way of looking at your career, helping you take your creativity, and your life, to new heights. Featuring stories of 10 high-profile creative leaders from across fashion, art, film, design, music gaming and more, these vital voices show that creators are also entrepreneurs, who harness business to achieve success. Through insightful analysis, accessible takeaways and practical snapshots summarizing business essentials, this book will empower creative people to use business to their advantage, increase the quality and quantity of your ideas, and convince people to support your vision. "This is a handbook of incalculable brilliance. You'll instinctively know the lessons that resonate with you." -Nile Rodgers
"I wish I had this book years ago when I started my business." -Thomas Heatherwick Carolyn Dailey is the founder of Creative Entrepreneurs, an international community empowering creatives to succeed personally and professionally. She has championed creative lives in the fields of design, music, architecture, film, fashion, publishing, and gaming-and in the heart of government at No. 10 Downing Street. Dailey has been named by Creative Review as one of the Top 50 Creative Leaders, by WIRED magazine as one of the Top 10 Women Digital Powerbrokers and by BIMA as one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs progressing the creative industries. She spent over 20 years as Time Warner's top executive in Europe, expanding the reach of HBO, CNN, Warner Bros. and Time Inc. She has given lectures at institutions including Cambridge University and Central St Martins, and regularly appears on Sky News.