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News
- Business leaders call on May to honour mental health manifesto pledge(CityAM)
- Female-led businesses contribute £105bn to UK economy per year but many sectors are “hardwired” against them(Elite Business covers Facebook and FSB research)
- Facing regulation, big tech sends a lobbyist to London(Wired on the Internet Association opening a London office)
- London leads the way as an artificial intelligence tech talent hub(CityAM covers Pitchbook research)
Opinion
- Why female founders need to be part of the business community (Nicola Mendelsohn, vice president EMEA, Facebook)
- Why is the government making it so hard for small businesses? (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Moving the needle: The power in connecting communities (Janet Coyle, managing director of SVC2UK, London & Partners)
- Wallace & Gromit: Models of compassionate capitalism (Margareta Pagano, contributor, Evening Standard)
- How to keep your job as your company grows (Steve Blank)
- Enabling refugees to thrive through the power of their own ideas (Charlie Fraser, co-founder, The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network)
Features
- FT: Scotland champions businesses with a cause
- The Next Web: An entrepreneur’s guide to Vietnam’s startup scene