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News
- UK retains seventh spot in ease of doing business ranking (CityAM covers World Bank’s annual index)
- Silicon Valley has invested a record $1.13bn in UK startups so far this year (Elite Business covers London & Partners research)
- Small businesses call on chancellor to end “living nightmare” of business rates (CityAM covers FSB’s pre-Budget statement)
- Government delay to NICs changes for self-employed welcomed(Guardian)
- Investors and innovators fail to see eye-to-eye on what drives innovative companies to attract investment and scale up (Gov.uk covers Innovate UK’s new report, ‘Scaling up: the investor perspective‘)
- Dyson, Revolut and NO women honoured at the UK Tech Awards (The Memo)
Opinion
- Why the ‘end of the startup era’ could be great for entrepreneurs (Joseph Flaherty, director of content, Founder Collective)
- The upside of being ruled by the five tech giants (Farhad Manjoo, columnist, New York Times)
- Let’s make SMEs the winners in Treasury push to boost business funding(Adam Tavener, chairman, Alternative Business Funding)
- The uncomfortable parallels between ICOs and the “penny stock” underworld (John Detrixhe, reporter, QZ)
- Why we mustn’t lose the soul of co-working (Andrew Clough, founder and managing director, The Brew)
- Why has the public lost faith in capitalism? (Karthik Ramanna, prof of business and public policy, Blavatnik School of Government)
Features