The Star Entrepreneur events are designed with entrepreneurs and small business owners in mind.
Their objective is to share insight on the power of public relations and the media for start-up and small businesses. Speakers include some of the UK's foremost journalists and leading PR professionals.
All events on our programme provide extensive case study material showing real business success stories from a wide range of UK entrepreneurs.
The Star Entrepreneur Conference
November 28th 2007
Speakers at the 28 November Conference included:
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Jamie Oliver Entreprenuer & Small Business Columnist The Daily Telegraph |
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Saskia Graville Deputy editor Red |
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David Sumner Smith former Programme editor The Sunday Times Enterprise Network |
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Helen Bullough Executive Editor BBC2, Dragon's Den |
Expert Insight into Public Relations
| Introduction to public relations | Flora Hamilton, former Director general, Public Relations Consultants Association The Public Relations Consultants Association is the voice of public relations consultancies in the UK. It represents 70 per cent of fee income for UK public relations consultancies. |
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| Public relations delivering at business start-up stage | Louise Mackintosh, Mantra PR Mantra is a communications consultancy specialising in a unique blend of creative corporate and intelligent consumer PR. Our heritage lies in working with online start-ups (Mantra was founded in 2000, supporting the first dot com boom) and we continue to launch and raise awareness for some of the most innovative new challenger brands, both off and online. |
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| Using communications to attract capital for business growth stage | Jonathan Simnett, Big Stick Communications and senior advisor - marketing, Ariadne Capital Expert in generating PR ahead of VC deals |
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| Public relations for realising the business's sales potential | Jim Hawker, Threepipe Threepipe co-founder Jim Hawker has worked for start up companies across many key industry sectors and has won PR awards for work with the Adam Street Club, the UK's only private members club for entrepreneurs. Jim is currently working with celebrity entrepreneur Simon Woodroffe in launching Yotel, the new hotel concept located within UK and International airports. |
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With success stories from
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| Karan Bilimoria Founder of Cobra Beer |
Richard Reed Founder of Innocent Drinks |
Sean Phelan Founder of Multimap |
Christina Domecq |
Ali Clabburn Award-winning Founder of |
If you would like case studies on PR delivering real live success for small and start-up businesses or advice on selecting a PR agency for your business, please contact Flora at or 020 7274 8648.












