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News
- Just 8% of UK VCs know what it’s like to work at a startup (Sifted cover Diversity VC report)
- Migrants drive UK’s fastest-growing companies (FT covers The Entrepreneurs Network’s latest report)
- London-based AllBright raises £13m (UK Tech News)
- British businesses attack post-Brexit immigration policy (City AM covers BCC polling)
- Scotland’s first Business & IP Centre launches in Glasgow (British Library)
Opinion
- The vital role of immigrants in start-up Britain (Sam Dumitriu, research director, The Entrepreneurs Network)
- Business must do more to shape the politics of immigration after May(Steve Ballinger, director of comms, British Future)
- Breathtaking arrogance and a wilful disregard for a startup’s health: this is why corporate partnerships with startups don’t work (Jeremy Basset, CEO, Co:cubed)
- Britain’s young entrepreneurs are keen to change the world, but are schools letting them down? (Trevor Clawson, contributor, Forbes)
- Foreign Office needs to get out of its tweeds and boost British business(Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Building a startup that will last (Hemant Taneja, MD and Ken Chenault, chairman of General Catalyst)
Features
- CB Insights: The Foie Gras’ing of startups: Does raising more VC lead to bigger outcomes?
- Elite Business: He’s scaled SBTV from side hustle to media destination and now Jamal Edwards is giving back
- Sifted: From Voi to Circ, we compare Europe’s scooter startups
- The Next Web: This ‘factory of factories’ helps hardware startups solve real problems in Kenya
Event: Supporting refugees into entrepreneurship
Calling business support organisations! Join us next Monday (22nd) to explore the entrepreneurial potential of refugees and how to create tailored business startup support. More info and registration here: https://cferefugees.eventbrite.co.uk