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StartUp Britain bus tour enters final week
The StartUp Britain bus – powered by NatWest and sponsored by 123 Reg and .UK – enters its six and final week of the summer tour.
If you’re thinking of starting a business, or wanting advice to help you grow an existing business, come along for free, impartial advice between 10am and 4pm!
- Monday: Victoria Square, Birmingham
- Tuesday: Jubilee Square, Leicester
- Wednesday: Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre
- Thursday: Broad Street, Reading
- Friday: Kings Cross Square, London (7am-8pm)
Tour website: www.startupbritain.org/bus
Hashtag: #StartUpTour
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News
- Adam Smith Institute calls for corporation tax to be scrapped as part of reforms to “reboot Britain” (City AM)
- Now more than ever, corporates want to work with startups, according to MassChallenge report (Startups)
- New FinTech Bridge to boost startups’ access to Korea (TechCityNews)
- Young people actually prefer physical shops more than any other age group, according to British Land (CityAM)
- Silicon Valley business leaders: “Trump would be a disaster for innovation” (Elite Business)
Commentary
- Our exit from Europe gives UK Plc a chance to act on global stage (Lloyds Dorfman, founder, Travelex and chairman, Office Group, The Prince’s Trust and Doddle)
- Britain hasn’t lost ARM: Its acquisition is the start of a new Great British tech story (Dan Hynes, talent partner, Atomico)
- Judge me in the job (Emma Jones, founder, Enterprise Nation and SME crown representative)
- Africa is growing thanks to capitalism (Marian L Tupy, editor, Human Progress)
- Sorry Mrs May, but employee-directors could damage our best boardrooms (Ian McVeigh, head of governance, Jupiter Asset Management)
- Brexit could help revive British manufacturing (Heidy Rehman, founder, Rose & Willard)
- Why Chinese entrepreneurs thrive in Singapore, but not in China (Panos Mourdoukoutas, professor and chair, dept of economics, LIU Post)
- Recasting Silicon Valley’s role in society (Daniel Del’Re, senior director, FTI Consulting)
- Can Europe innovate a way out of its ‘lost decade’? (Sean Randolph, senior director, Bay Area Council Economic Institute)