The week in entrepreneurship
Your weekly summary of entrepreneurship news, comment, and features. Sent by the Centre for Entrepreneurs (part of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation). Sign up here. Read the original newsletter here.
News
- Investors urge tech startups to hoard cash (FT)
- Social media firms could face ban if they fail to remove harmful content, warns Matt Hancock (CityAM)
- SMEs urged to register for continued Horizon 2020 research funding (UK Tech News)
- Inspirational exporters recognised with board of trade awards (gov.uk)
Opinion
- How hiring ex-offenders can be beneficial for your startup (Varsha Saraogi, features writer, Elite Business)
- Making one million tech jobs in London a reality (Russ Shaw, founder, Tech London Advocates)
- La French Tech faces its next challenge: How to go big (Chris O’Brien, European correspondent, Venture Beat)
- London will love e-scooters but we’ll wait for permission (Fredrik Hjelm, CEO, Voi Scooters)
- Of course AI can be biased – it’s up to businesses to fix that (Kirstin Gillon, IT technical manager, ICAEW)
- How not to waste £675m and how best to create better towns and high streets (Matthew Hopkinson, co-founder, Didobi)
Features