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News
- UK startups break records with $4.8bn VC funding this year (CityAM covers Tech Nation and Dealroom research)
- AI software founder wins world entrepreneur award (FT covers EY Entrepreneur of the Year award)
- Enterprise Nation and Amazon launch scheme helping online businesses get onto the high street (Manchester Evening News)
- Tech firms urge Tory leadership candidates to back UK’s digital sector(CityAM)
- Two-fifths of millennial SME owners think starting a business is better than going to university (Elite Business covers WorldPay polling)
- Backlash against “sauna parties” at tech conferences (Sifted)
- Entrepreneurial champions inducted into Hall of Fame (14 of the UK’s most committed supporters of entrepreneurship, including CFE’s Matt Smith, have been inducted into the Great British Entrepreneur Awards Hall of Fame)
Opinion
- The real problem with tech companies that go public (John Buni, co-founder & CEO, CleanCloud and Tailor Made London)
- The world needs minds of all kinds, so neurodiversity is crucial to business success (Akama Davies, director of global solutions and innovation, Xaxis)
- The best startup founders are stubborn and bull-headed… but also ask for advice (Neil Rimer, partner, Index Ventures)
- We can stop the slow death of the high street (Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands)
- Breaking up big tech will be really hard to do – here’s why (Martin Giles, SF bureau chief, MIT Technology Review)
- Adam Smith and the trouble with peer-to-peer lending (Tim Worstall, Adam Smith Institute)
Features