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News
- UK startups are growing by nearly a third every year (CityAM covers Beauhurst and Syndicate Room research)
- Productivity growth strongest since financial crisis (BBC)
- SETsquared partnership ranked as the world’s top business incubator(SETsquared covers UBI Global ranking)
- Treasury select committee launches probe into cryptocurrencies(CityAM)
- Key gig economy case reaches supreme court (BBC)
- Small businesses spend 12 working days each year in complex tax administration (CityAM covers FSB research)
Opinion
- Uber and Citymapper show how technology is blurring the line between public and private transport (Paul Sawers, writer, VentureBeat)
- Fears of evil innovations are as wrong as they’ve always been (Nathan Myhrvold, founder and chief executive, Intellectual Ventures)
- What the Carillion crisis means to the government (Ian Makgill, founder, Spend Network and Open Opps)
- Carillion must be a catalyst for change on the SME finance scene(Stephen Jones, chief executive, UK Finance)
- Airbnb is defined by its CEO’s obsessive perfection (Leah Fessler, reporter, QZ)
- How and why I started angel investing (Joel Gascoigne, co-founder, Buffer)
Features