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News
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- UK productivity continues lost decade (BBC)
- Seaside reinvention ‘should start with Blackpool’ (BBC covers House of Lords report that complements and cites CFE’s seaside entrepreneur report)
- Apprenticeship levy unlikely to meet target of 3m starts by 2020, admits minister (CityAM)
- Theranos whisteblowers launch non-profit Ethics in Entrepreneurship to bring morals into startups (Elite Business)
- Plexal and My Life My Say launch inclusive design accelerator (UK Tech News)
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Opinion
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- Nepotism is rife, innovation is rare and diversity is a sham (secret VC, Sifted)
- ICOs, DAOs, WTFs? (Chris Haley, head of new technology and startup research, Nesta sets out his thoughts on digital token offerings as Nesta begins research on the topic)
- Saying YES to business and education (Oli Barrett, director, The Connector Unit)
- I left my kids for two months to build my startup (Jenny Drezin, founder, Dzomo)
- How is an employee entrepreneurial and why should we care? (Martin Lackéus, researcher, Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship)
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Features
- Forbes: OakNorth is Europe’s most valuable fintech and in profit: a rare breed of a fintech unicorn
- FT: The torment of founders who can’t let go of their babies
- Elite Business: “I wanted to be a supermum”: Female leaders on balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship
- Sifted: Inside jHub, the secretive UK military lab working with startups on healthtech, drones and portable fridges (also featured and championed in CFE’s ‘Military entrepreneurship manifesto‘)
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