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News
- Silicon Valley is no longer number one for talent (The Next Web on Startup Genome’s latest ecosystem report)
- Trade body: Clear up confusion over ‘bogus self-employed’ (Mail Online on IPSE’s call for statutory definition of self-employment)
- ‘True cost’ inflation for SMEs even higher than CPI (London Loves Business on Barclays research)
Opinion
- France’s tech awakening might be belated but it shouldn’t be a surprise (Maximilian Yoshioka, lead researcher, Centre for Entrepreneurs)
- Tackling myths in entrepreneurship policy: what high growth firms really look like (Dr Ross Brown, lecturer, University of St Andrews, and Dr Suzanne Mawson, lecturer, University of Stirling)
- Business that aims to make a lasting difference (John Timpson, chairman, Timpson)
- The UK’s top tech clusters are now outside London (Francois Badenhorst, deputy editor, Business Zone)
- How morale changes as a startup grows (David Niu, CEO, TINYpulse, and Mark Roberge, chief revenue officer, HubSpot)
- It’s time to close the scale-up investment gap (Juliet Rogan, head of high growth and entrepreneurs, Barclays)
- Ministers’ industrial strategy risks leaving millions stifled and stuck (Liam Booth-Smith, CEO, Localis)
- The Tories are wrong to indulge in misguided calls for new self-employment “rights” (Len Shackleton, prof of economics, University of Buckingham)
Features
- New York Times: Obituary – David Rockefeller
- FT: Dubai leads Arab startups
- Tech City: Tech Nation 2017 report
- Startups.co.uk: How I’ve juggled motherhood with running a successful business
- Guardian: Running a business with mum