Last night marked the launch of the School for Creative Startups. Hosted at the glamorous Hospital Club in Covent Garden, the founder (and former Dragon) Doug Richard was joined by MOBOs entrepreneur Kanya King, Molton Brown founder and boss of Browns Fashion Caroline Burstein, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey and design guru Libby Sellers. The purpose: to thrash out a much-mooted subject. Can all creatives be taught to be entrepreneurs? And is the UK the right environment to foster creative enterprise?
Seven Hills PR co-founder Michael Hayman compered the evening. He was on fine form, punctuating proceedings with regular sarcastic epithets (“And your question is? …Hurry up!”), keeping the pace of debate practically supersonic. The guests were amply lubricated by endless Couvoisier cocktails and no one stood on ceremony as questions were fired from the floor.
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