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The creative entrepreneur : a guide to building a successful creative business from industry titans / Carolyn Dailey.

By: Dailey, Carolyn, 1959- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2025Copyright date: ©2025Description: 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241651292 (hardback).Subject(s): Entrepreneurship | Creative ability in business | Success in businessDDC classification: 650.1 DAI
Contents:
Introduction -- Who this book is for -- Meet the people and ideas you need to know now -- How this book came about -- The creative entrepreneur manifesto -- Lay of the land -- First, what do we mean by "creative"? -- How creative entrepreneurs are different -- The huge opportunity -- The creative entrepreneur-telling the untold story -- Interviews and business essentials -- Looking towards the future -- A word on AI -- The future for creative entrepreneurs.
List(s) this item appears in: MTU Kerry New Books Summer 2026
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General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 650.1 DAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Kerry Module ENTR71006 Essential 38888000965131
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library Display 650.1 DAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out Kerry Module ENTR71006 Essential 06/11/2026 38888000965149
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An essential guide on how to build and run a creative business from ten of the world's most inspiring entrepreneurs, including multi-Grammy winner Nile Rodgers, culinary legend Ruthie Rodgers, and Emmy-winning producer of The Crown , Andy Harries. Their stories, actionable advice, and recommendations will help your business thrive and fuel your life potential.

The Creative Entrepreneur is a call to adventure, inviting you to think from the perspective of a mission-driven creative professional. This thinking can help you form a new business, or transform an existing one, and provide a ready frame for life and your career helping you take your creativity to unprecedented heights. Featuring interviews with ten visionaries from across the fields of fashion, art, film, design, music, gaming, and more, all of whom wed business acumen to a way of seeing the world, and including recommendations to fuel your creativity, support your business vision, and liberate you from old-school thinking.

includes index.

Introduction -- Who this book is for -- Meet the people and ideas you need to know now -- How this book came about -- The creative entrepreneur manifesto -- Lay of the land -- First, what do we mean by "creative"? -- How creative entrepreneurs are different -- The huge opportunity -- The creative entrepreneur-telling the untold story -- Interviews and business essentials -- Looking towards the future -- A word on AI -- The future for creative entrepreneurs.

MTU Kerry Module ENTR71006 - Essential reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.