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News
- Apprenticeship Levy comes into effect: Two-thirds of British firms clueless about it (CityAM)
- Family businesses are ‘less productive than other firms’ (Telegraph covers ONS research)
- SMEs hit hard for underpayment of VAT (Economia)
- Former Number 10 aide Daniel Korski launches venture to link startups with public services (TechCrunch)
- Fewer than three in ten SMEs have heard of the government’s industrial strategy (Fresh Business Thinking covers the Aldermore SME Future Attitudes report)
- Business minister tells FTSE 350 bosses: Take on staff from ethnic minorities and help their careers progress (Financial Mail on Sunday)
- Number of technology companies setting up in UK more than doubles this side of Brexit (CityAM covers RSM research)
- Entrepreneurs are happier than employed counterparts (Virgin covers ETH Zurich research with a sample of 25,000 people)
Opinion
- The government must end this campaign against the self-reliant (Lord Flight, chairman, Flight & Partners Recovery Fund)
- Creating corporate accelerators for PR purposes is bad for innovation (Tendayi Viki, contributor, Forbes and founder, Benneli Jacobs)
- Last chance saloon? Creating and supporting a pipeline of growth businesses (Prof Mark Hart, deputy director, Enterprise Research Centre)
- Small firms deserve to be paid on time (Margot James MP, small business minister)
- Workplace heroes: why SMEs should hire ex-military personnel (Ian Rand, CEO, Barclays Business Banking)
- In defence of Uber: the firm has become an easy target for attacks driven by ideology (Elena Shalneva, communications consultant and CityAM contributor)
Features
- FT: Roc Technologies, co-founded by CFE Fellow Mike Hockey, has been listed as the fastest growing business and technology services provider in Europe as part of the FT1000.
- UnLtd: Get involved in the design of an online tool for Mission-Led Business
- Economist: Hurdles for hubs: encouraging African entrepreneurship
- QZ: The slow death of one of India’s biggest startup hubs has begun
- Elite Business: Safety first: The UK’s cybersecurity startups are stepping us to keep us safe
- Fast Company: The Skimm founders on what it’s like to start a business with your BFF