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News
- Business rates hardship fund proves ‘false hope’ after more than £70m delayed (Telegraph)
- Smartphone giant Huawei opens bursary to foster British entrepreneurship (Real Business)
- British Business Bank to support £100m in loans to small businesses after Carillion collapse (City AM)
- Y Combinator launches free online course to train new startup investors(Forbes)
- V&A opening at Here East to inspire next-gen innovators (The Memo)
Opinion
- Disability inclusion? It’s the business of business (Caroline Casey, founder of business inclusion campaign #valuable)
- The challenge and big implications of measuring productivity correctly(Matt Hancock, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport)
- Strava misjudged how deadly data can be, and it won’t be the last(Oliver Smith, senior reporter, The Memo)
- The conservative case for disruption (Liz Truss, chief secretary to the treasury)
- Unicorns gorge as investors dish up bigger rounds, more capital (Gené Teare, head of content, Crunchbase)
- All platforms are created equal, but some platforms are more equal than others (Benji Vaughan, founder and chief exec, Disciple)
Features