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News
- Businesses warn Chancellor business rates have reached a “tipping point” (City AM)
- Former unicorn VE Interactive sold for £2m (EliteBusiness)
- Government quietly scraps tax breaks for micro-entrepreneurs days after they kick in (This Is Money)
- Record number of small firms are missing their auto-enrolment deadline(Startups)
- Gig economy firms such as Uber and Deliveroo ‘are free-riding on welfare state’ (Tech City News on new Work and Pensions Committee report)
Opinion
- My business partner and I are political opposites: it makes us stronger(Neil Robertson, chief executive, Compleat Software)
- The fall in small business investment via the Enterprise Investment Scheme matters to us all (Claire Madden, managing partner, Connection Capital)
- Why hackathons are the best business bootcamps (Krish Ramineni, co-founder, Fireflies.ai)
- Theresa May should think of the Surinders of this world when she wants our votes (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Demo day? Don’t (Gil Dibner, Israeli & European VC)
Features