School for Creative Startups: Creativity, risk and Ed Vaizey’s home truth

30 SEP 2011 By fiona

Welcome to Part Two of the Smarta coverage of last night’s School for Creative Startups launch (read Part One here). As the evening progressed, the Courvoisier flowed, the debate became heated and the panel of entrepreneurs and enterprise experts spoke candidly of the barriers to creative business success.

Caroline Burstein is a truly fascinating entrepreneur. She founded the Molton Brown brand back in the seventies, sold up in 1993 and now heads up the creative arm of Browns, the iconic fashion boutique founded by her parents, which launched the careers of everyone from John Galliano to Christopher Kane.

No one is more ably suited to comment on the state of creativity in the UK. She told the School for Creative Startups’ guests a little bit about her business background and what she has learned about being a creative entrepreneur.

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