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News
- Tech sector business owners are the most positive about Brexit (City AM covers Moore Stephens polling)
- Number of budding entrepreneurs plummets (Telegraph covers NatWest polling)
- Soaring business rates are crippling us, restauranteurs tell the Chancellor (Mail on Sunday)
- Digital banking’s appeal is high but consumers doubt challenger offerings (Elite Business covers RFi Global’s global digital banking report)
- Brexit is a cover up by UK government for failures to tackle other issues, warns BCC (Independent)
Opinion
- Why we need more women to take the entrepreneurial leap (Dee Stirling, co-founder, Two London and trustee, New Entrepreneurs Foundation)
- Why 2018 needs to be the year of transparency in venture capital(Francesca Warner, chief executive, Diversity VC)
- The nine types of startups Y Combinator thinks the world needs in 2018(Kat Manalac, partner, Y Combinator)
- Beware the real Beast from the East: Chinese tech giants (Hannes Ben, chief international officer, Forward3D Group)
- Silicon Valley is over, says Silicon Valley (Kevin Roose, columnist, New York Times)
- Response: Silicon Valley is not over (Ian Hathaway, research director, the Center for American Entrepreneurship)
Features
- Forbes: Bulb: The bright startup that’s shaking up Britain’s £54bn energy market
- Business Insider UK: Second Home’s founders have global ambitions for their office empire – but local councils have caused ‘incredibly frustrating’ delays
- Nominations are open for the UK’s leading entrepreneurship awards: