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News
- Party manifestos: what politicians are promising SMEs (Guardian)
- Small businesses are calling upon party leaders to simplify VAT (CityAM)
- Gig economy negativity based on ‘lazy’ and ‘outdated’ assumptions, CBI warns (Telegraph)
- More than a quarter of UK SMEs rely on gig economy workers (Fresh Business Thinking)
Opinion
- Could accelerators soon become a thing of the past? (Andrew Humphries, co-founder, The Bakery)
- SMEs have had enough of red tape and punitive policies (Emma Jones, founder, Enterprise Nation)
- There’s no shame in a $100m startup (Eric Paley, managing partner, Founder Collective)
- Which party is even remotely ready for the tech revolution? (Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard)
- WeWork is all about ping-pong, coffee and trendy startups but is it selling out? (Ben Chapman, The Independent)
- The state should not stifle the sharing economy (Daniel Dolton, MEP for East Midlands)
- London’s entrepreneurs must fight any restrictions on hiring skilled migrants (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
Features
- TechCrunch: Here’s how likely your startup is to get acquired at any stage(US)
- Harvard Business Review and Luleå University of Technology: We recorded VC’s conversations and analysed how differently they talk about female entrepreneurs
- Startups.co.uk: Startups 100 2017
- Real Business: Learning from startup success in Nordic countries