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News
- Female founders get less than 1p for every £1 VCs invest in UK startups(Elite Business covers British Business Bank research)
- Fuel Ventures trials anonymous pitch decks to tackle gender bias(TechRound)
- Tech Nation launches national cyber security scale up programme (UK Tech News)
- Calm becomes the first meditation unicorn with its $88m Series B (Fast Company)
- Millennial entrepreneurs more optimistic (Fresh Business Thinking covers eBay’s small business barometer)
Opinion
- The subtle sexism of hackathons (Dan Formosa, co-founder, 4B)
- Speech transcript: We have a democracy problem, exacerbated by technology (Tom Watson MP, deputy leader, Labour Party)
- Politicians don’t have to learn to code, but knowing something about tech would help (Matthew Hughes, journalist, The Next Web)
- GovStart: Where we are now (Mark Lazer, head of platform, Public.io)
- The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favourite growth strategy(Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media)
Features
- Business of Fashion: The death of clothing
- Fast Company: WeWork grows up (and out and everywhere)
- Fast Company: When refugees need emergency help with a language barrier, this app connects them to a translator