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News
- May vows to be “unashamedly pro-business” as UK leaves EU(LondonLoves Business) Read the speech
- New digital service to help businesses launch onto global markets (gov.uk) Visit GREAT.gov.uk
- Government wants to spend £1 in every £3 on small businesses by 2020 (CityAM)
- Europe’s best startup city: London retains European Digital City Index crown (Elite Business) Read the report
- Just Eat grabs slice of foodtech startups (Evening Standard)
- We’ve hit peak gig economy, according to JP Morgan (CityAM)
Opinion
- Britain needs a culture shift if it’s going to lad the world on free trade (Daniel Korski, former deputy head, Downing Street Policy Unit)
- Let’s leverage Britain’s heritage as a great trading nation to lead the world in free trade again (Simon Walker, non-exec, Department for International Trade)
- Far from being a champion of free enterprise, Trump is an embodiment of its worst tendencies (Alex Massie, CapX)
- Government must get serious about simplifying Britain’s complex tax code (Anton Colella, chief executive, Icas)
- Lisbon is giving London a lesson in driving the creative economy (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Why having a balanced workforce in the tech industry matters (James Hind, founder, CarWow)
- Why IPO? You need the market’s tough love (Ravi Mhatre, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners)
- The reason Silicon Valley beat out Boston for Venture Capital dominance (Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang, China India Institute)
- Is the gig economy rigged? (Will Knight, senior editor, MIT Technology Review)