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News
- Replacing failed shops ‘won’t save city centres’ (BBC cover Centre for Cities research)
- Metro Bank, Starling and Tide claim lion’s share of RBS $775m small business banking pot as CYBG, TSB and Co-op miss out (This Is Money)
- Entrepreneur First raises $115m for new fund (UK Tech News)
- Companies ‘should get public contract ban’ over late payments (Fresh Business Thinking)
- Small business, big stress: new research reports soaring stress levels among UK business owners (London Loves Business covers Xero polling)
Opinion
- Estonia is running it’s country like a tech company (Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia)
- Yet another tax is no way ‘to level the playing field’ for the high street(John Ashmore, deputy editor, CapX)
- Reflecting on my failure to build a billion dollar company (Sahil Lavingia, CEO, Gumroad)
- Still a nation of innovators: Nurturing the talent to power Britain’s AI revolution (Greg Clark MP, business secretary)
- Dear tech friends: You are not indestructible (Vivek Wadhwa, distinguished fellow, Carnegie Mellon School of Engineering)
- How companies can adapt during times of political uncertainty (Ben Laker, professor of leadership, Henley Business School, and Thomas Roulet, senior lecturer, Judge Business School)
- Les Miserables: Why owners are losing faith in their businesses (Trevor Clawson, contributor, Forbes)
Features
- New York Times: Uber and the ongoing erasure of public life
- New York Times: China’s entrepreneurs are wary of it’s future
- This is Money: Can ‘AirBnB for retail’ Appear Here use Britain’s dying department stores to revive the high street?