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News
- Bruntwood and Legal & General pledge £360m to grow regional tech startups (UK Tech News)
- Brexit fails to dent Venture Capital appetite for UK startups (London Loves Business covers KPMG research showing the UK remains Europe’s prime investment destination)
- SME owners struggling with mental health (Economia covers Haines Watts research showing 73% of SME owners have suffered a negative impact on their mental health)
Opinion
- Companies are taking our data and ripping us off (John Penrose MP, author, ‘In a shining city upon a hill; Rebooting capitalism for the many, not the few’)
- Shaping the idea of a ‘Global Britain’ into a reality (Russ Shaw, founder, Tech London Advocates)
- Beware the AI delusion (Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones professor of economics, Pomona College)
- Being an entrepreneur can be stressful, but it’s all part of the job (Charlie Mullins, founder, Pimlico Plumbers)
Features
- BBC: Mental health: ‘I returned to a deafeningly silent home’ (feature on ‘100 Stories of Growth‘ – a mental health campaign launched by Guy Tolhurst
- New York Times: Tech workers now want to know: What are we building this for?
- Qz: Uber’s secret weapon is its team of economists