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News
- UK unicorn Revolut is fighting back after its week from hell (Business Insider)
- UCL and Barclays unleash deep tech venture builder (Fintech Futures)
- Venture capital firm Antler makes London debut to invest in startups(Evening Standard)
- Making Tax Digital will lead to £57bn productivity payout (UK Tech News covers Intuit QuickBooks and Volterra Partners)
Opinion
- It makes smart business sense to invest in the future of refugees (David Miliband, chief executive, International Rescue Committee)
- No, data is not the new oil (Antonio Garcia Martinez, contributor, Wired)
- Startup due diligence begins with your co-founder(s) (Bretton Putter, CEO, CultureGene)
- Is the entrepreneurial world more accepting of diversity? (Charlie Mullins, founder, Pimlico Plumbers)
- Female founders don’t need to be ‘bolshie’ to match the boys (Phil Warren, editor, Live Life Satisfied)
- We are family: The risks and rewards of promoting your SME as a familial concern (Louise Findlay-Wilson, managing director, Energy PR)
- Ex-offenders deserve to work – here’s why you should recruit them (Dan Labbad, chief executive of Europe and international operations, Lendlease)
- Alors Monsieur Macron, stop trying to make la chaîne de blocs happen(Yessi Bello Perez, UK crypto correspondent, The Next Web)
Features