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News
- Start Up Loans Company has now lent £400m to UK startups(Startups.co.uk)
- Former IOD boss Simon Walker to lead UK Finance review of small business banking (CityAM)
- Confidence rises among UK SMEs (Economia covers FSB quarterly index)
- Amazon and Ebay to share data with HMRC in bid to tackle overseas tax evasion (CityAM)
- Spacetech startups blast off with the UK’s first dedicated spacetech VC(Elite Business)
Opinion
- The UK must embrace refugees’ entrepreneurial potential (Matt Smith, director, Centre for Entrepreneurs writes in Huffington Post about our latest report, ‘Starting afresh: How entrepreneurship is transforming the lives of resettled refugees‘)
- Why London startups are immune to the EU brain drain to the US (Amir Bozorgzadeh, co-founder and CEO, Virtuleap)
- How fear helps (and hurts) entrepreneurs (James Hayton, prof of entrepreneurship, Warwick Business School and Gabriella Cacciotti, assistant prof, Warwick Business School)
- The entrepreneurial lessons I learned growing up amid civil war (Kirk Krappe, CEO, Apttus)
- Why we need more high-growth small businesses (Philip Salter, director, The Entrepreneurs Network)
- Eyes on Dubai: Evaluating the Gulf region as a startup haven (Vinnie Lauria, managing partner, Golden Gate Ventures)
Features
- New Yorker: At Uber, a new CEO shifts gears
- CityAM: Bankrupt, jailed, £100m: Confessions of AirX CEO John Matthews – the least popular man in private jet chartering
- Entrepreneur: How entrepreneurship is helping to save Puerto Rico
- Telegraph: Clubbing’s ‘enfant terrible’ Ministry of Sound dances its way into offices