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News
- Business leaders confident SMEs will thrive in 2017 worldwide (Fresh Business Thinking on American Express Global SME Pulse)
- 13 business groups have joined forces to fight the government’s business rates plans (CityAM)
- One third of employers ‘unaware’ of April apprenticeship levy (BBC on City and Guilds polling)
- Taylor review on self-employment cannot recommend changes to tax policy (Independent)
- Tech leaders call for new post-Brexit visa to avert talent crisis (CityAM)
- Jaguar Land Rover launches accelerator for mobility and transportation startups (Techcrunch)
Opinion
- Calling entrepreneurs: It’s time to be vocal about the post-Brexit visa system you need (Maria Patsalos, partner, Mishcon de Reya)
- Charlie Mullins, founder of Pimllico Plumbers, writes about the recent appeal court ruling against the company
- Millennials: The unlikely group supporting Britain’s SMEs (Goncalo de Vasconcelos, chief executive, Syndicate Room)
- The myopic focus on startup failure has gone too far (Francois Badenhorst, deputy editor, Business Zone)
- How founders can recognise and combat depression (Jordana Valencia, former MD, MIT Launch Entrepreneurship Program)
- Why I like to fund entrepreneurs with (a little) big-company experience (Mich Rosenbloom, partner, Founder Collective)
- Please don’t launch a fintech startup (Matthew Hughes, freelance journalist)
- We need a nuclear weapon to end bad behaviour in business: Revoking limited liability (Peter Montagnon, assc director, Institute of Business Ethics)
Features
- Wired: Co-founder conflict
- CityAM: The Founder director John Lee Hancock: “There are things about Ray Kroc I really admire“
- Fast Company: The untold story of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s visionary 1980s tech incubator
- Guardian: ‘Tragedy can happen to anyone’: How we kept business afloat in tough times