News

• Less than a third of decision makers in British VC firms are women (Elite Business cover new research from Diversity VC)
• Zero-hours contract workers 'should have right to request guaranteed hours', Taylor Review will say (Independent)
• Startups with foreign directors attract more funding than those with UK only directors (City AM covers Pivogo analysis of Crunchbase and Companies House data)
• Corporates spent a third more on SME collaboration than R&D in the past year, but number of deals declined (Real Business covers Bond Dickson research) 
• More than half of UK business owners unaware of incoming General Data Protection Regulation (Fresh Business Thinking covers Shred-it's 7th Security Tracker)

Opinion

• Just 9% of funding goes to women-led startups - it is crucial we address this imbalance (Sam Smith, chief executive, FinnCap and CFE advisor)
• Peer-to-peer is big enough to be regulated (Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard)
• In Amazon's wake: Seven forecasts for tech entrepreneurship in the Middle East (Elizabeth Macbride, Forbes contributor) 
• Startups must constantly evolve if they are to succeed (Simon Calver, partner, BGF Ventures)
• The technology sector is an essential partner in the battle against terrorism (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
• Europe isn't the new Silicon Valley. It's better (Journalist Matthew Hughes responds to a World Economic Forum feature on the European startup scene)
• Accelerating the accelerators (Dirk Bischoff, founder, Hatch Enterprise)
• Could Dubai be the next global startup hub? (Anna Johansson, founder, Johansson Consulting)

Features

• Guardian: Young entrepreneurs in Syria: 'they'll rebuild what the war has destroyed'
• The Next Web: How Germany is uniting its tech hubs to dethrone Silicon Valley
• Independent: Eastern European tech entrepreneurs are reviving the region's startup scene