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News
- Government stats reveal there’s one million more startups today than seven years ago (startups.co.uk)
- TransferWise leads SyndicateRoom’s rip-roaring Top 100 startups list(The Memo shares SyndicateRoom’s list of fastest growing startups)
- Zopa zooms ahead to become the first consumer peer-to-peer group to lend out £100m in a month (CityAM)
- British entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well (London Loves Business covers IOD 99 survey)
- Older entrepreneurs employ more staff than start-ups run by younger people (Guardian covers Hitatchi Capital and CEBR research)
- Companies spinning out of UK universities have raised a record £1bn so far this year (City AM covers Pennington Manches research)
- British Business Bank appoints Piers Linney and Amanda Rendle as non-executive directors (BBB)
Opinion
- There’s an implosion of early-stage VC funding, and no one’s talking about it (Victor Basta, founder, Magister Advisors)
- British entrepreneurs are feeling reassuringly optimistic…for now (Stephen Martin, director general, Institute of Directors)
- Turbulent times – business as usual: 4.5m jobs created or destroyed in 12 months! (Prof Mark Hart, deputy director, Enterprise Research Centre)
- Why Berlin’s tech scene has the perfect balance of creativity and chaos(Alex Wood, editor, The Memo)
- We should celebrate capitalism’s moral side (Marian L Tupy, senior policy analyst, Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity)
- Politicians could use a business lesson from UK entrepreneurs (Philip Salter, director, The Entrepreneurs Network)
Features