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News
- New changes to encourage small businesses to apply for government contracts (gov.uk)
- End ‘wild west’ days of cryptocurrencies, Ripple urges UK regulators(Telegraph)
- UK business confidence highest in a year (Economia covers IoD polling)
- New research shows successful founders are far older than the Valley stereotype (TechCrunch covers National Bureau of Economic Research paper)
- WeWork and Flatiron School bring campus coding course to London(Startups.co.uk)
Opinion
- The myth of the innovation lab (Tendayi Viki, managing partner, Benneili Jacobs)
- The joy of boring business ideas (Jonathan Margolis, journalist, Financial Times)
- Why entrepreneurs start businesses rather than join them (Steve Blank)
- Pavel Durov’s “Telegram” case shows its terrifyingly easy to create fake UK companies (Max de Haldevang, geopolitics reporter, QZ and Joon Ian Wong, technology reporter, QZ)
- What the Global Entrepreneurship Congress means for everyone (Dane Stangler, head of policy, Startup Genome)
- Forget Facebook – it’s the tech-illiterate politicians we should be afraid of(Leon Emilari, co-founder, Crest)
- Are we seeing the end of Mark Zuckerberg’s game of monopoly? (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
Features