Creative Entrepreneurs - From 'Solo' To Global Empire

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Entrepreneurship has many sides. In order to avoid working for someone else, many focus on launching their own startup. But what about simply creating a business by yourself? No team, no funding, just you, your business – then maybe a GLOBAL EMPIRE.

Rupert Murdoch, Madonna, and Richard Branson are some of the most renowned Creative Entrepreneurs, combining creative flair with an entrepreneurial ability to build multimillion-dollar business empires.

How do you go from Zero to Growth?
How do you go from ME to WE? – or should you?

This special event will explore how this is accomplished, what it takes to 'be your own boss' with your own business, and then take the next steps toward GROWTH.

It will bring out the entrepreneur inside you, even if you never started a company before, are already a successful entrepreneur looking for new inspiration, or perhaps a full-time employee while your brain screams, GO START A START-UP! Then this evening is for you.

We'll feature 3-4 diverse creative entrepreneurs sharing their stories of What, How, When and Where?, in order to become successful. How they went from Zero to Growth - and what happened in between?

You will leave this evening with a seed to nurture and grow and maybe it will be you on stage for our next Zero to Growth panel :-)

And you can also enjoy a beer and snacks. Join us.

This is a PAID EVENT. RSVP here on Meetup and then also register on Eventbrite: http://creative-entrepreneurs-2016.eventbrite.com

PANELISTS:

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Johanna Elisabet Green is a creative business developer, Swarm Agent, Tech start-up accelerator, vagabond, photographer, and artist. During 10 consecutive years and between 10 countries, she entered the world of media, retail, marketing, talent, real estate and the entertainment industry, building crossborder interdependent synergies. Johanna is the Founder and CEO of Disrupt Synergies, wildlife preserver and an active change agent in improving the European educational system.

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Olle Bodelius - After 1 year of employment as a programmer in London 1999, Olle decided to start his own business. After various projects and business ideas, it was eventually SiteScanner that took off. Between 2004 and 2010 Olle grew SiteScanner from 0 to 1.5 M€ in turnover and sold it to French Ip-Label in 2011. Since then he has been involved in a number of different startups. Both operationally and as advisor and investor.

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Mia Lorentzson has been an entrepreneur since 1999 and is Founder and CEO of ChordBuddy Europe, an e-commerce site, GoForItMarketing, which helps small businesses get more customers online, and Radikal Management, an artist management company. Mia started off at Polar Studios as a sound engineer for some of the biggest artists in Sweden and in the world. She is also a speaker and always looking for new exciting collaborations, new projects, new start-ups, and new talent.

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Event to be moderated, in English, by Peter Fosso, an American entrepreneur living in Stockholm. Peter advises startups and is the Founder of Global Music Project, NetMusic Entertainment, Stockholm Entrepreneurs, and other companies.

SCHEDULE (approximate times): Check-In/Mingling (18:45-19:15), Panel Discussion (19:15-20:30 or so and then more mingling - don't miss your chance to make some important new connections.

Creative entrepreneurship (From Wikipedia): Creative entrepreneurship is the practice of setting up a business – or setting yourself up as self-employed - in one of the creative industries. The focus of the creative entrepreneur differs from that of the typical business entrepreneur or, indeed, the social entrepreneur in that s/he is concerned first and foremost with the creation and exploitation of creative or intellectual capital.

Essentially, creative entrepreneurs are investors in talent – their own or other people’s.

The most renowned creative entrepreneurs have combined creative flair with the entrepreneurial ability to build multimillion-dollar business empires.