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News
- Uber ready for talks on London ban (Politico)
- More entrepreneurs looking for an exit (BBC covers the FSB’s latest small business index)
- Hull named most enterprising place in Britain (gov.uk announces winners of Enterprising Britain Awards)
- UK business recoils at Vince Cable’s suggestion of a second EU referendum (CityAM)
- Amazon and eBay putting UK firms out of business by ignoring tax fraud by foreign firms, says MPs (The Independent covers a Commons Public Accounts Committee inquiry tackling online VAT fraud)
- Firms are ‘wasting potential’ of a fifth of workers (BBC covers the Centre for Social Justice’s latest report on driving productivity growth)
Opinion
- Imagining the next 20 years of work (Jason Stockwood, CEO, Simply Business calls on business owners and employees to join a conversation about the future of work)
- Tech’s cash glut leaves public markets behind (FT view)
- It’s time Britain’s Brexit negotiators educated themselves on the needs of small business (Prof Mark Hart, deputy director, Enterprise Research Centre)
- British business and what went horribly wrong (The Evening Standard’s Anthony Hilton reviews ‘Tragedy and Challenge’ by Tom Brown)
- The London ban shows how much of Uber’s business is based on regulatory arbitrage (Jim Edwards, founding director, Business Insider UK)
- Not all entrepreneurs are rebels, rule breakers or disrupters (Leigh Buchanan, editor at large, Inc, responds to last week’s New York Times article ‘The Shkreli syndrome‘)
- The EU’s regulatory war on Google is an attack on innovation (Amelia Irvine, young voices advocate, Foundation for Economic Education)
Features
- TechCrunch: GoCardless CEO: ‘I still feel like I’m the same person’
- FT: How Romania became a popular tech destination
- CBInsights: The international unicorn club: 106 private companies outside the US valued at $1bn+
- Standard: Two women entrepreneurs who invested a fake male co-founder say acting through him was ‘like day and night’