The week in entrepreneurship
Your weekly summary of entrepreneurship news, comment, and features. Sent by the Centre for Entrepreneurs (part of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation). Sign up here. Read the original newsletter here.
News
- FSB calls on big business to raise their game in fight to end lay payments crisis (London Loves Business)
- TransferWise to back UK’s youngest founders with fee-free transfers(startups.co.uk)
- Rocket Internet moves into fintech and AI with £2.3bn cash investment up for grabs (CityAM)
- Looking beyond Brexit: SMEs are being bullish about growing internationally (Elite Business covers International Business Festival research)
- Drones could add £42bn to UK economy by 2030 with more than a third to be in public sector (CityAM covers PWC research)
Opinion
- What I learned from becoming the CEO when the founder stepped back(Grant Powell, CEO, Central Working)
- The apprenticeship levy is poisoning our economy (Charlie Mullins, founder, Pimlico Plumbers)
- Up, up and away: How to make sure the UK’s drone revolution can take off safely (Baroness Sugg, aviation minister)
- For the love of mothers, stop using the word “mumpreneur” (Annalisa Merelli, reporter, QZ)
Features