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News
- Half of UK’s small businesses and startups turning down contracts due to unreasonable demands (Independent on Hitatchi Capital research)
- Government clampdown on tax breaks for entrepreneurs will rake in extra £1.5bn (Mail on Sunday on Moore Stephens research)
- Company directors twice as likely to suffer identify fraud (Economia on Cifas research)
- UK female founders are being ignored by male investors (Startups.co.uk on AllBright research)
- Millennial entrepreneurs care less about money than baby boomers (Elite Business on HSNC research)
- SME confidence drops for first time since Brexit (Economia on FSB index)
Opinion
- Travis Kalanick, Uber and the cutting edge of capitalism (Robert Colvile, editor, CapX)
- Uber’s lesson: Silicon Valley’s startup machine needs fixing (Farhad Manjoo, New York Times)
- The human rights of women entrepreneurs (Reid Hoffman, founder, LinkedIn)
- What does an aspiring entrepreneur need to know? (Thomas R Eisenmann, co-chair, Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School and Rob Howe, director, Biorobotics Lab, Harvard University)
- Armed Forces Day: Why you should hire an army reservist (Emily Griffiths, engineering account manager, Experis and reservist, 39th Signal Regiment)
Features