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News
- Young entrepreneurs optimistic going into 2020 (CityAM cover Tata & Nacue research)
- Government launches new business support campaign (gov.uk announces businesssupport.gov.uk)
- SoftBank is involved in 6% of all VC flows in Europe (Sifted)
- Klarna and Stripe investor Atomico launches fifth tech fund at $820m (CityAM)
Opinion
- Our message to the world: Britain is open for business (Alok Sharma, business secretary)
- Shutting out low-skilled migrants might be popular, but that doesn’t make it a good policy (Kristian Niemietz, head of health and welfare, Institute of Economic Affairs)
- Research parks can help turn the light-bulb moment of science into business success (Malcolm Parry, chief executive, Surrey Research Park)
- Beyond ‘levelling up’: How to give Britain’s regions the edge (Tej Parikh, chief economist, Institute of Directors)
- The new business of AI (and how it’s different from traditional software) (Martin Casado, general partner and Matt Bornstein, partner, Andreessen Horowitz)
- Do women-only networking groups harm female entrepreneurship? (Adi Gaskell, innovation consultant and Forbes contributor)
- A survival guide for startups in the era of tech giants (Thales S Teixeira, co-founder, Decoupling)
Features
- Andreessen Horowitz: The a16z Marketplace 100 – a ranking of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies
- Critique: Why a major VC firm’s focus on misleading metrics sets a deceptive standard (Sara Mauskopf, CEO & co-founder, Winnie)
- MIT Technology Review: The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world
- The Atlantic: Tech experts are pessimistic about their industry
- Sifted: What’s next for Europe’s scooter wars?
Upcoming CFE events
- 3rd March: An audience with George Bevis (Tide)
- 11-12th March: The 3rd CFE Incubator and Accelerator Network annual conference