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News
- Sajid Javid set to curb entrepreneurs’ relief in Budget (FT)
- RBS earmarks £1bn for female entrepreneurs as new boss bids to win back small and medium business customers (Daily Mail)
- Empty business rates relief costs £1bn (BBC)
- OECD talls UK to ‘hold fire’ on new tech giants tax (CityAM)
- More than 1 in 5 Brits plan to start their own business (UK Tech News covers FreeAgent survey)
- Europe loosens rules on stock options, but employees are still sceptical (Sifted)
Opinion
- How to invest in startups (Sam Altman, chairman, Y Combinator)
- Our fusty education system must embrace entrepreneurialism (Sir Anthony Seldon, vice chancellor, University of Buckingham)
- Businesses need to be heard on immigration (Andy Silvester, deputy editor, CityAM)
- A cashless society is nothing to fear (Sam Dumitriu, head of research, Entrepreneurs Network)
- The new Downing Street team can’t afford to ignore business (Michael Hayman, co-founder, Seven Hills)
Features
- Harvard Business Review: The essential Clayton Christensen articles
- Sifted: 25 UK venture capital funds founders should know
- BBC: From coal to coffee in ex-mining town
- Guardian: ‘How can we compete with Google?’: The battle to train quantum coders
- Economist: The number of the best: Finding the optimal size of teams and organisations
Upcoming CFE events
- 3rd March: An audience with George Bevis (Tide)
- 11-12th March: The 3rd CFE Incubator and Accelerator Network annual conference