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News
- Saul Klein’s Zinc brings 55 entrepreneurs together to address female mental health issues (Startups.co.uk)
- Councils hoard business rates relief funding (London Loves Business covers FSB research)
- UK tech employs more foreign workers from outside the EU than within(CityAM covers Tech City UK and Nesta research)
- First small business commissioner named (Economia)
- Jobs tsar Matthew Taylor warns MPs minimum wage rules would end gig economy work for Uber, Deliveroo and other on-demand platforms(CityAM)
- British tech investors want the Treasury to hand over extra £900m after Brexit (Business Insider)
Opinion
- Refugee camps could be harbouring the great innovators of the future(Emma Sinclair, co-founder, Enterprise Jungle)
- It’s uncomfortable, but family businesses need succession planning(Heather Matthews, managing director, Little’s Chauffeurs)
- Universal Credit will be a disaster for the self-employed. Who is listening?(Benedict Dellot, associate director, RSA)
- Israel: ‘Startup Nation’ – the good, the great, and the one fatal flaw(Stewart Rogers, Venture Beat)
- In defence of the gig economy (Tim Connor, founder, Connoco)
- No startup is an island: entrepreneurship relies on collaboration (Steven Drost, chief strategy officer, CodeBase)
Features
- FT special report: The UK’s entrepreneurs
- New York Times: Tech giants, once seen as saviours, are now viewed as threats