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News
- Millions paid to former Carillion execs “does no good to reputation of UK business”, says IoD (CityAM)
- Medium sized businesses upbeat about Brexit with only 22% wanting to remain in the single market (Daily Mail covers RSM research)
- Company builder Entrepreneur First is expanding to Berlin(TechCrunch)
- VC investment in Europe surged 26.9% in 2017, thanks to UK startups’ mega-rounds (VentureBeat covers Dow Jones VentureSource Q4’17 Europe Venture Capital report)
- Wales’ tech companies attract £115m startup investment (BBC covers Pitchbook research)
- Businesses perform better when they have greater ethnic and gender diversity (Independent covers McKinsey & Co research)
Opinion
- Silicon Valley is lacking in one respect – a sense of entrepreneurial hustle (Leslie Hook, correspondent, FT)
- Boost Britain’s small businesses to avoid another Carillion (Chris Poll, chairman, Doing Business Together)
- The current bloke isn’t up to the job, so I’m running for London Mayor(Charlie Mullins, founder, Pimlico Plumbers)
- It’s easy to criticise the UK apprenticeship levy – but we need to give it a chance (Euan Blair, founder and chief exec, WhiteHat)
- The problem with courting Amazon (Brian Alexander, contributor, The Atlantic)
Features
- Wired: How to win founders and influence everyone (profile of Andressen Horowitz partner, Margit Wennmachers)
- Forbes: Sparking a Nordic Silicon Valley
- The Next Web: How to effectively launch your product on Product Hunt, according to science