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News
- European tech report 2018: startup funding slightly-down year-over-year to total €24.7bn across 3,000 deals, but exits are way up (Tech.eu report)
- Vogue Business: new title to focus on fashion industry (BBC)
- Craft beer boom continues as figures reveal 430 new breweries opened in 2017 (This Is Money)
- Failed tech startup Blippar to relaunch as Nick Candy’s venture firm comes to its rescue (CityAM)
Opinion
- Another tech bubble could be about to burst (Rana Foroohar, global business columnist, FT)
- Chinese innovation shows why the tech giants need to be broken up(Howard Yu, prof of management and innovation, IMD Business School)
- The explosive rise of the entrepreneur (Check Warner, co-founder and CEO, Diversity VC)
- The power of free markets can liberate Britain’s high streets (Jake Berry MP, parliamentary under-secretary for housing, communities and local government)
- Management matters (Sam Dumitriu, head of research, The Entrepreneurs Network)
- Freelancers are being exploited by businesses that fail to pay their invoices – this damaging culture must change (Matt Dowling, founder, Freelance Club)
Features