News
- Number of UK scale-ups hits record high (Fresh Business Thinking covers ScaleUp Institute and ONS research)
- Investing in random group of startups secures better returns than firms backed by Dragons’ Den stars (CityAM covers Syndicate Room research)
- Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups (Techcrunch)
- Paths to scale: Finance lessons from European entrepreneurs (Nesta report)
- Tech Nation announces its Future Fifty cohorts for 2019 (UK Tech News)
Opinion
- The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas (Mark Zuckerberg)
- Investing in disability tech startups (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- School’s not out – Britain must become a nation of lifelong learners (Dr Vince Cable MP, leader, Liberal Democrats and Rajay Naik, chief executive, Keypath Education and chair, Lifelong Learning Commission)
- VCs are exploiting underrepresented people to solve their diversity problems (Anisah Osman Britton, founder, 23 Code Street and director, Backstage Capital)
- How British startups are bucking the Brexit gloom (John Buni, co-founder and CEO, CleanCloud and Tailor Made London)
- Go back to the drawing board and help UK businesses become top of the class (Tony Danker, chief executive, Be the Business)
- What makes a successful startup team (Eva de Mol, partner, CapitalIT)
- Actually, I want to hand over even more of my personal data to big tech(Mark Sullivan, senior writer, Fast Company)
Features
- Tech.eu: Building, growing, connecting: A deep dive into the state of European tech in 2019
- Economist: Masayoshi Son prepares to unleash his second $100bn tech fund
- Fast Company: A eulogy for every product Google has ruthlessly killed (145 and counting)
- Forbes: From market stall to $4m headquarters: How to scale up an artisan business (profile on Tropic Skincare)