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News
- Duke of York: UK firms should make best of Brexit (BBC)
- British business demands concessions from May as economic confidence slumps (Telegraph)
- UK government promises to support startup funding post-Brexit (Business Zone covers the pre-briefed extracts of the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech – which was not delivered due to Grenfell fire)
- HSBC dedicates £10bn to SME exporters (Real Business)
- Matthew Taylor outlines plan to balance flexibility and fairness in world of work (Telegraph)
- FirstMinute Capital launches $60m seed fund for European startups(VentureBeat)
Queen’s Birthday Honours
Entrepreneurs and business owners featured in the Queen’s Birthday Honoursthis weekend. These include:
Alison Lowe (Felicities), Alyson Hogg (Vita Liberata), Anthony Elliott (Time Out), Elisabetta Lapenna-Huda (MyBnk), Elspeth Finch (Indigo&), John Timpson (Timpson), Malcolm Walker (Iceland Foods), Mike Bandar (Turn Partners) and Tarek Malouf (Hummingbird Bakery).
In the press: Knighthood for John Timpson, the cobbler who fostered 90 children (Telegraph)
Opinion
- Small business owners are the general election’s forgotten and abused(Robert Kelsey, deputy chair, Centre for Entrepreneurs, and founder, Moorgate Communications)
- A hung parliament will save SMEs from the anti-business red tape in the Tory manifesto (Emma Jones, founder, Enterprise Nation)
- Even Uber’s crisis won’t kill founder worship in tech (Davey Alba, Wired)
- Alone together: Why it’s time the self-employed joined forces to overcome adversity (Benedict Dellot, associate director, RSA writes about new report, ‘The self-organising self-employed‘)
- Is America encouraging the wrong kind of entrepreneurship? (Robert Litan, adjunct senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and Ian Hathaway, nonresident senior fellow, Brookings Institution)
- Related: On the rise of unproductive entrepreneurs like Travis Kalanick (Izabella Kaminska, FT)
- The crucial role of tax incentives in startup investment (Mark Brownridge, director general, Enterprise Investment Scheme Association)
- As millennials we have a natural inclination towards entrepreneurship(Leon Ifayemi, co-founder and CEO, SPCE)