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News
- Funding Circle gets £40m in state backing to tackle business loan squeeze (Telegraph)
- Younger bosses more positive about their firm’s growth than older bosses – but more negative about Brexit (Mail Online covers Albion Ventures polling)
- New IoD head says UK should ‘open its eyes’ to new trading partners (Telegraph)
- Entrepreneurs more likely to plunder their savings than borrow from the bank to start-up a business (Mail Online covers Crowdfinders polling)
Opinion
- Don’t wreck the Enterprise Investment Scheme (Lord Flight, chairman, Flight & Partners Recovery Fund)
- As we prepare to leave the EU, remember change can be positive (Lloyd Dorfman, founder and president, Travelex)
- When large companies are better at entrepreneurship than startups (Chris Zook, partner, Bain & Company)
- Pensions coverage for the self-employed is pitiful – but it’s never too late to start nudging (Benedict Dellot, associate director, The RSA)
- We need free markets, not a free-for-all (Tim Morgan, former head of research, Tullet Prebon)
- Sharing economy: A year in revolt (Brhmie Balaram, senior researcher, The RSA)
Features
- Fast Company: These are the countries with the most determined entrepreneurs
- Guardian: ‘Seat of enlightenment’: How Edinburgh became startup city of the year
- Wired: 2016 was the year Silicon Valley’s hype machine spluttered
- Venture Beat: Korea’s startup scene begins to diversify, reach beyond its borders