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2016 another record year for business formation
The latest Companies House data, as analysed by the Centre for Entrepreneurs, shows that business formation reached another record high in 2016 – with a total of 657,790 new businesses started. This builds on previous records of 608,110 in 2015 and 581,173 in 2014.
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News
- UK tech sector attracts more investment than any other European country in 2016 (Startups.co.uk cover London & Partners research)
- Mary Portas warns government rate rises threaten small shops (Telegraph)
- Rush to digitise tax returns may ruin small businesses, warn MPs (FT)
- Thousands of Airbnb and eBay users hit by tax raid (Mail Online)
- UK lagging behind ‘digital tiger economies’ (Fresh Business Thinking covers the Barclays Digital Development Index)
- Metro bank commits £1bn lending fund to UK businesses (Real Business)
Opinion
- Incubating the future: the role of university incubators in supporting student and graduate entrepreneurs (Max Yoshioka, lead researcher, Centre for Entrepreneurs)
- Give young people the chance to build an open, hopeful London (Brent Hoberman, chair, Founders Factory and Founders Forum and advisor to the Centre for Entrepreneurs)
- It’s time Britain stopped dancing to the tech giants’ tune (Mark Field, MP for the Cities of London and Westminster)
- To defend capitalism, we need to explain it (Robert Colville, editor, CapX)
- How I moved from being an introverted programmer to an entrepreneur (Derry Holt, founder, Stormburst Studios)
Features
- Guardian: The women-led startups smashing the glass ceiling
- Qz: The evolution of startups, told through the analysis of thousands of company bios
- CityAM: Alternative lending’s leading founders and CEOs give their predictions for the sector in 2017
- Guardian: Why tech businesses are tackling society’s most taboo subject – death