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News
- Government finally launches search for the UK’s first small business commissioner to crack down on late-paying big firms (Mail Online)
- After BHS: MPs eye stricter transparency rules for biggest private companies (CityAM)
- Lending Works becomes first major P2P platform to launch new ISA (London Loves Business)
- Investment in UK fintech startups ‘drops by 33.7% in 2016’ (Tech City News on Innovate Finance report)
- Sharing economy feeling regulatory pressure (Economia on PWC report)
- UK companies could face £2,600 in additional employment costs, warns FSB (CityAM)
Opinion
- From asylum seeker to job creator (Maximilian Yoshioka, lead researcher, Centre for Entrepreneurs)
- Related: Immigrants are bringing entrepreneurial flair to Germany (The Economist)
- The different reason men and women leave their successful startups (Rachida Justo, assc prof of entrepreneurial management, IE Business School)
- Entrepreneurial wealth doesn’t halt progress – it encourages it (Martin Vlachynsky, analyst, Institute of Economic and Social Studies, Slovakia)
- Why startups need to put mental health on the front burner (Poppy Jaman, CEO, Mental Health First Aid England)
- Can Gabon become Africa’s entrepreneurial hub? (Josh Neicho, freelance journalist)
- Think like a startup: Rekindling the entrepreneurial spark when the founders have gone (Trevor Clawson, contributor, Forbes)
- Why the government needs to get serious about the self-employed (Benedict Dellott, assc director, RSA on The Entrepreneurial Audit report)
- How startups thrive in emerging markets (Rina Onur, founding partner, 500 Startups Istanbul)