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News
- Corporation tax cut to 15% dismissed by Chancellor (Economia) asbusinesses tell him to cut national insurance (City AM)
- 10m Brits dream of owning a business only to never follow through – losing out on £62,000 (Startups’ coverage of Barclays research)
- Scotland’s employment increase has been driven almost entirely by 300,000 people going self-employed since 2008/09 – most of whom are women (BBC covers RBS research)
- Britain must be open to entrepreneurial migrants (new report from Mi-Hub and IoD)
- UK is ranked best place in Europe to start a digital business(TechCityNews covers EY report)
- UK small businesses see second year of solid growth while majority claim not to be worried by Brexit (Startups covers Hiscox report)
Opinion
- It’s time for long-term fin-tech to break into pensions and mortgages (Rob Moffat, partner, Balderton Capital)
- FT (£): Silicon Valley’s European stars are returning home (Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielson, partner, Balderton Capital)
- Is fin-tech just for the rich? (Fabian Wallace-Stephens, data research assistant, The RSA)]
- What will it take to create inclusive high-tech incubators and accelerators?(Janis Bowdler, head of small business and community development initiatives, global philanthropy, JP Morgan)
- Startups are the best place for women in business (Allison Gage, COO and CFO, The Big Know)
- Social entrepreneurship: where the glass ceiling is already smashed(Monique Villa, CEO, Thompson Reuters Foundation)
- FT (£): Silicon Valley’s adoration of the delinquent entrepreneur (Philip Delves Broughton, author, What They Teach You at Harvard Business School)
Features
- Techcrunch: How the start-up world is bringing digital nomadism closer to reality
- Telegraph: Fat and lazy? Five charts that show how UK exports lag behind
- My journey from a career in the City to a startup (James Mackonie, co-founder & COO, OFF3R)