News

• UK retains seventh spot in ease of doing business ranking (CityAM covers World Bank's annual index)
• Silicon Valley has invested a record $1.13bn in UK startups so far this year (Elite Business covers London & Partners research)
• Small businesses call on chancellor to end "living nightmare" of business rates (CityAM covers FSB's pre-Budget statement)
• Government delay to NICs changes for self-employed welcomed (Guardian)
• Investors and innovators fail to see eye-to-eye on what drives innovative companies to attract investment and scale up (Gov.uk covers Innovate UK's new report, 'Scaling up: the investor perspective')
• Dyson, Revolut and NO women honoured at the UK Tech Awards (The Memo)

Opinion

• Why the 'end of the startup era' could be great for entrepreneurs (Joseph Flaherty, director of content, Founder Collective)
• The upside of being ruled by the five tech giants (Farhad Manjoo, columnist, New York Times)
• Let's make SMEs the winners in Treasury push to boost business funding (Adam Tavener, chairman, Alternative Business Funding)
• The uncomfortable parallels between ICOs and the "penny stock" underworld (John Detrixhe, reporter, QZ)
• Why we mustn't lose the soul of co-working (Andrew Clough, founder and managing director, The Brew)
• Why has the public lost faith in capitalism? (Karthik Ramanna, prof of business and public policy, Blavatnik School of Government)

• Wired: Inside the downfall of Doppler Labs
• Standard: Meet Peter Williams: The founder of Jack Wills who's turned ethical fashion into an experience

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