News

• Government finally launches search for the UK's first small business commissioner to crack down on late-paying big firms (Mail Online)
  • Apply for the role here
• After BHS: MPs eye stricter transparency rules for biggest private companies (CityAM)
• Lending Works becomes first major P2P platform to launch new ISA (London Loves Business)
• Investment in UK fintech startups 'drops by 33.7% in 2016' (Tech City News on Innovate Finance report)
• Sharing economy feeling regulatory pressure (Economia on PWC report)
• UK companies could face £2,600 in additional employment costs, warns FSB (CityAM)

Opinion

• From asylum seeker to job creator (Maximilian Yoshioka, lead researcher, Centre for Entrepreneurs)
  • Related: Immigrants are bringing entrepreneurial flair to Germany (The Economist)
• The different reason men and women leave their successful startups (Rachida Justo, assc prof of entrepreneurial management, IE Business School)
• Entrepreneurial wealth doesn't halt progress - it encourages it (Martin Vlachynsky, analyst, Institute of Economic and Social Studies, Slovakia)
• Why startups need to put mental health on the front burner (Poppy Jaman, CEO, Mental Health First Aid England)
• Can Gabon become Africa's entrepreneurial hub? (Josh Neicho, freelance journalist)
• Think like a startup: Rekindling the entrepreneurial spark when the founders have gone (Trevor Clawson, contributor, Forbes)
• Why the government needs to get serious about the self-employed (Benedict Dellott, assc director, RSA on The Entrepreneurial Audit report)
• How startups thrive in emerging markets (Rina Onur, founding partner, 500 Startups Istanbul)

Features

• Wired: The next big blue-collar job is coding
• Virgin: Does ADHD boost entrepreneurial ability? 
• CityAM: Yo Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe: I want to be the next Richard Branson