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News
- Government set to scrap entrepreneurs’ relief in £2.7bn tax grab (CityAM)
- Cap abolished on Tech Nation visa ensuring access for highly-skilled tech workers (Sifted)
- Founders Factory backs Creator Fund, student-led VC to back EU student startups (TechCrunch)
- New ‘east-west’ divide splitting north start-up economy (BBC features Enterprise Research Centre research)
- Whitehall looks to clamp down on business grant fraud (CityAM)
Opinion
- My experience with burnout as a startup founder (Joel Gascoigne, co-founder & CEO, Buffer)
- Purpose-driven tech is how Europe will attract top talent (open letter from leading European entrepreneurs)
- Less low-skilled migration means we can no longer ignore Britain’s NEETs (Sam Windett, director of policy, Impetus)
- It’s 2020 and tech still sucks at diversity – here’s how we fix it (Yessi Bello Perez, senior writer, The Next Web)
- Is IR35 a disaster waiting to happen? (David Prosser, contributor, Forbes)
Features