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News
- Female-led businesses could boost the UK economy by £250bn if they started and grew as fast as men’s (Mail on Sunday)
- Startups clash with watchdog over digital merger regulation (CityAM)
- Angel CoFund plans private fund to boost £100m capacity (GrowthBusiness)
- UK small businesses gloomy about Coronavirus and Brexit (CityAM)
Opinion
- The UK’s tech sector has much to be optimistic about (Matt Warman MP, minister for digital infrastructure)
- The legacy that I’ve left my successor at the business department (Andrea Leadsom MP, former business secretary)
- If the chancellor stands up for small firms, he’ll be standing up for society as a whole (Mike Cherry, national chairman, FSB)
- Not a unicorn? Not a loser (Marie Mawad, Paris correspondent, Sifted)
- Human ingenuity and working together will pull us through the coronavirus crisis (Michael Hayman, co-founder, Seven Hills)
- What to expect in the next few months in startupland (Tomasz Tunguz, VC, Redpoint)
Features
- BBC: The multimillionaire’s plan to reinvent a town
- Sifted: Customer blunders and tensions at the top – behind N26’s failed UK expansion
- Economist: Covid-19 is foisting changes on business that could be beneficial
- Great British Entrepreneur Awards: Spring magazine
- FT: Zoom chief, Eric Yuan, the new king of remote working