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News
- Uber and Deliveroo appeal for overhaul of employment laws they claim prevent them from providing benefits to self-employed staff (Telegraph)
- Government promises measures for hardest hit after business rates backlash (startups.co.uk)
- 65% of small firms still using manual record keeping despite Making Tax Digital plans (Economia)
- British Business Bank unlocks £400m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (Real Business)
- Richard Branson: ‘Give new firms a three-year break from business rates’ (Mail Online covers Virgin Startup report)
Opinion
- The win-win of partnerships between businesses and charities (Lloyd Dorfman, chairman, The Office Group, Doddle and The Prince’s Trust)
- The ‘peer’ is being muscled out of peer-to-peer investment (Chris Goodfellow, editor, Business Zone)
- Large companies will be the biggest beneficiaries of the lean startup movement (Tendayi Viki, author, The Corporate Startup)
- The government must relax visa rules to safeguard our tech boom (Romilly Dennys, exec director of Coadec)
- Too much kool-aid at Entrepreneurial Spark (Andrew Mitchell, founder, Informatics Ventures)
- Rags to riches? Why the privileged are more likely to become entrepreneurs (Lucy Douglas, contributor, Guardian Small Business Network)
Features
- BBC: Baby food with a touch of the Mediterranean (featuring CFE Fellow Cat Gazzoli of Piccolo)
- CityAM: Meet the man making 10,000 luxury watches a year in Britain
- FT: Over 50s are the new business startup generation