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News
- Fund new startups from pension pots, IoD urges (BBC covers new IOD report)
- Entrepreneur report reveals confidence among SMEs (London Loves Business covers Hiscox’s latest ‘DNA of an entrepreneur’ report)
- UK is exit capital of Europe for startups (Elite Business covers Crunchbase and Mind The Gap research)
- Government innovation grants have created 150,000 jobs and stimulated £43bn turnover (gov.uk releases Enterprise Research Centre research)
- UK small businesses wasting 120 each year on admin (Telegraph cover Sage polling)
- Company builder Entrepreneur First raises $12.4m led by Greylock, Reid Hoffman joins board (TechCrunch)
Opinion
- Capitalism has lost its way – we need to rescue it fast (Phillip Ullmann, chief energiser, Cordant Group)
- Uncertainty is a large problem for small businesses (Helen Brand, chief executive, ACCA)
- Businesses just want certainty over their EU employees’ future (Lady Judge, chair, Institute of Directors)
- Why there’s no shame in second-time entrepreneurship (Ed Reeves, co-founder and director, Moneypenny)
- Why we choose profit (Jason Fried, founder and CEO, Basecamp)
- The corporate sadist’s guide to small business development (Wybrand Ganzevoort, consultant, Collective Value Creation)
Features