StartUp Britain bus visits Canterbury

The StartUp Britain tour - powered by NatWest and sponsored by 123 Reg and .UK - enters its fourth week and visits Canterbury before taking a week's break. 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: Rose Lane, Canterbury

Tour website: www.startupbritain.org/bus
Hashtag: #StartUpTour
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News

• Osborne pledges to cut Corporation Tax to below 15% (BBC)
• Skills minister: Brexit won't delay Apprenticeship Levy (TES)
• Hilary Clinton unveils technology and innovation policy (Wired)
• Rajesh Agrawal (founder, RationalFX) announced as Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for business (Startups.co.uk)
• Business leaders lash out at government's lack of Brexit plans - while calling for government to hold out for best deal (CityAM)
• TechUK calls on government to help tech sector 'power UK back to growth' (TechCityNews)

Commentary

• To innovate or iterate - trying to define real innovation (Christian Miele, partner, e.ventures)
• The opportunities Silicon Valley doesn't see (Sebastiaan Vaessen, head of strategy, Naspers Group)
• The intangible traits of a successful startup employee (Kyle Wong, CEO, Pixlee)
• How to spin-off a startup without making your head spin (Gareth Wilson, executive, Fog Creek - the company behind Trello)
• Is there a north-south divide in crowdfunded investment? (Luke Lang, co-founder & CMO, Crowdcube)

Brexit commentary

• A CEO's guide to navigating Brexit (Martin Reeves, senior partner and Philipp Carlsson-Szelak, chief economist, Boston Consulting Group)
• Brexit: Reaching for a higher vision (Shanker Singham, director of economic policy and prosperity studies, Legatum Institute)
• Reasons to be cheerful - the Brexit dream scenario (John Longworth, former director-general, British Chamber of Commerce)
• For or against, why Britain's entrepreneurs are seeing a glass half full (Alison Coleman, Forbes contributor)
• Brexit fallout could mean stronger businesses for some (Jim Armitage, columnist, Evening Standard)
  • From the same author: At last business leaders wake up to UK's wage disparities
• A post-Brexit view of the UK tech sector (Adrian Drodz, research director, Frost & Sullivan and Ajay Sule, practice director, EIA)

• Conservative party leadership race: Who would be best for small business? (Startups.co.uk)
• How GV (Google Ventures) handles the unsexy part of growing startups (VentureBeat)
• Which MBAs make more: consultants or small business owners? (Richard S Ruback & Royce Yudkoff, Harvard Business School)
• 'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point'. As he gives away £1m to UK startups, Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy (Mail Online)
• Starting a business in the middle of a coup (BBC)