News

• Any more self-employment tax raids 'politically catastrophic' says Matthew Taylor (Telegraph)
• Start Up Loans Company hits £300m and merges with British Business Bank (Financial Mail on Sunday)
• UK business groups 'need to stop lecturing people about benefits of immigration' (Independent on British Future's latest report)
• Almost one in five of Britain's SMEs are missing payday in battle to stay in business (Fresh Business Thinking on nPower Business polling)
• One in three entrepreneurs face giving up being self-employed to get on the property ladder (Mail Online on Aldermore research)
  • More findings: 39% of entrepreneurs polled felt lonely; 17% do not feel they are in control of their life; but 93% still love being their own boss.
• Study concludes entrepreneurs love their businesses the same way parents love their kids (Forbes on Aalto University research)
• Apprenticeship levy 'will deepen north/south divide' (Guardian on IPPR research)
• WeWork offers £1.2m funding to UK startups through its Creator Awards (Startups.co.uk)

Opinion

• Theresa May must not overlook mid-sized fast growth firms in Brexit talks (Paul Eagland, managing partner, BDO writes in CityAM about the accountancy firm's new report)
• Why entrepreneurs should put down the business books and read fiction (Alicia Navarro, CEO & co-founder, Skimlinks)
• Jerks and the startups they ruin (Dan Lyons, author, 'Disrupted: My misadventure in startup land')
• Hiding skeletons in the closet is bad for business (John Seaman, founder & CEO, Saybrook Partners, and Arielle Gorin, consultant, Saybrook Partners)
• Why the endgame for fintech isn't all rosy collaboration (Pedro Madeira, head of research, Beauhurst)

Features

• Enterprise Research Centre: The UK local growth dashboard 2017
• De Spiegel: Germany's race to catch up in the startup world
• Business Zone: Jenny Tooth's mission to get more female investors in the room
• Fast Company: Can Red Bull make social entrepreneurship an extreme sport?
• QZ: Domino's already outperformed every tech stock, now robots deliver its pizzas
• Tech City News: Tech in Birmingham: Great quality of life, but lacking talent