News

• Institute of Directors calls on all parties to back UK's startup culture ahead of election (CityAM)
• Britain's fastest-growing companies are sprinting ahead (Telegraph on London Stock Exchange's 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain)
• One in four UK companies never consider recruiting apprenticeships, despite new industry levy (City AM on Adecco survey)
• UK tech firm Improbable closes staggering $502m Series B (Tech City News)
• Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs to launch secondary market (TechCrunch)

Opinion

• Why leaving the company I founded was the biggest mistake I ever made (Sahar Hashemi, co-founder, Coffee Republic and CFE Fellow)
• How UK tech firms can silence predictions of Brexit doom (Russ Shaw, founder, Tech London Advocates)
• Why the government could never build the iPhone (Tim Worstall, senior fellow, Adam Smith Institute)
• The government did diddly-squat: how a rag tag group of entrepreneurs built Tech City (Francois Badenhorst, deputy editor, Business Zone)
• Here's why 'cool' offices don't always make for a happier workforce (Cary Cooper, distinguished prof of organisational psychology and health, University of Manchester)

Features

• Economist: William Baumol, a great economist, died on 4th May
  Obituary for the economist who highlighted the role of the entrepreneur in economic theory. Best known for his renowned essay, 'Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive' as recently cited in CFE's Inmates to Entrepreneurs research.
• QZ: Amazon has set a worrying precedent for startups that accept money from them
• The Next Web: Pay your respects to dead startups at the Startup Graveyard