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News
- Institute of Directors calls on all parties to back UK’s startup culture ahead of election (CityAM)
- Britain’s fastest-growing companies are sprinting ahead (Telegraph on London Stock Exchange’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain)
- One in four UK companies never consider recruiting apprenticeships, despite new industry levy (City AM on Adecco survey)
- UK tech firm Improbable closes staggering $502m Series B (Tech City News)
- Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs to launch secondary market(TechCrunch)
Opinion
- Why leaving the company I founded was the biggest mistake I ever made(Sahar Hashemi, co-founder, Coffee Republic and CFE Fellow)
- How UK tech firms can silence predictions of Brexit doom (Russ Shaw, founder, Tech London Advocates)
- Why the government could never build the iPhone (Tim Worstall, senior fellow, Adam Smith Institute)
- The government did diddly-squat: how a rag tag group of entrepreneurs built Tech City (Francois Badenhorst, deputy editor, Business Zone)
- Here’s why ‘cool’ offices don’t always make for a happier workforce (Cary Cooper, distinguished prof of organisational psychology and health, University of Manchester)
Features
- Economist: William Baumol, a great economist, died on 4th May
Obituary for the economist who highlighted the role of the entrepreneur in economic theory. Best known for his renowned essay, ‘Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive’ as recently cited in CFE’s Inmates to Entrepreneurs research. - QZ: Amazon has set a worrying precedent for startups that accept money from them
- The Next Web: Pay your respects to dead startups at the Startup Graveyard