News

• Businesses warn Chancellor business rates have reached a "tipping point" (CityAM)
• Former unicorn VE Interactive sold for £2m (EliteBusiness)
• Government quietly scraps tax breaks for micro-entrepreneurs days after they kick in (This Is Money)
• Record number of small firms are missing their auto-enrolment deadline (Startups)
• Gig economy firms such as Uber and Deliveroo 'are free-riding on welfare state' (Tech City News on new Work and Pensions Committee report)

Opinion

• My business partner and I are political opposites: it makes us stronger (Neil Robertson, chief executive, Compleat Software)
• The fall in small business investment via the Enterprise Investment Scheme matters to us all (Claire Madden, managing partner, Connection Capital)
• Why hackathons are the best business bootcamps (Krish Ramineni, co-founder, Fireflies.ai)
• Theresa May should think of the Surinders of this world when she wants our votes (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
• Demo day? Don't (Gil Dibner, Israeli & European VC)

Features

• FT: Innovators leading a regional revival in the north-west England
• Business Zone: From £605 startup costs and an old Scrabble board to £1m turnover
• Guardian: Designing for disability: the businesses breaking down barriers