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StartUp Britain bus heads west
The StartUp Britain tour – powered by NatWest and sponsored by 123 Reg and .UK – begins its second half by touring west England and Wales. If you’re thinking of starting a business, or wanting advice to help you grow an existing business, come along for free, impartial advice!
- Monday: Market Square, Lancaster
- Tuesday: Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
- Wednesday: King Street, Nottingham
- Thursday: High St, Cheltenham
- Friday: Queen Street, Cardiff
Tour website: www.startupbritain.org/bus
Hashtag: #StartUpTour
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News
- ‘Cut business rates to help us cope with Brexit’: Key groups send urgent plea to Chancellor from 100,000 UK firms (Mail Online)
- Business secretary to start round the world trade tour to secure British deals (Telegraph)
- UK fintech startups are more attractive than ever post-Brexit, one investor claims (City AM)
- Sharing Economy UK unveils new kitemark for industry (Elite Business)
- Tax regime tempts owners to sell firms but not grow them, claims former Green & Blacks chief exec (Mail Online)
Commentary
- To the vultures circling London’s tech scene post-Brexit (Neil Murray, founding editor, The Nordic Web)
- Britain will retain its golden spirit of enterprise if we keep backing entrepreneurs (Xavier Rolet, chief executive, London Stock Exchange Group and Gerard Grech, chief executive, Tech City UK)
- Government must start talking up the UK economy (Allister Heath, The Telegraph)
- The legal complexities of late stage tech deals (Dylan Kennett, associate, DLA Piper and Louis Lehot, partner, DLA Piper)
- The digital economy is outgrowing existing business eco-systems(Eleanor Ross, The Guardian)
- SMEs and Brexit: Seeing through the uncertainty (Stephen Hodges, chief executive, Close Brothers Banking Division)
- Could the latest sharing economy model disrupt the retail market? (Jo Davies, founder & CEO, Zak)
- How I surfed the wave that nearly drowned my company (Jane Chen, co-founder, Embrace Innovations)
Features
- What ever happened to John Lewis’s favourite startups? (The Guardian)