News

• Government stats reveal there's one million more startups today than seven years ago (startups.co.uk)
• TransferWise leads SyndicateRoom's rip-roaring Top 100 startups list (The Memo shares SyndicateRoom's list of fastest growing startups)
• Zopa zooms ahead to become the first consumer peer-to-peer group to lend out £100m in a month (CityAM)
• British entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well (London Loves Business covers IOD 99 survey)
• Older entrepreneurs employ more staff than start-ups run by younger people (Guardian covers Hitatchi Capital and CEBR research)
• Companies spinning out of UK universities have raised a record £1bn so far this year (City AM covers Pennington Manches research)
• British Business Bank appoints Piers Linney and Amanda Rendle as non-executive directors (BBB)

Opinion

• There's an implosion of early-stage VC funding, and no one's talking about it (Victor Basta, founder, Magister Advisors)
• British entrepreneurs are feeling reassuringly optimistic...for now (Stephen Martin, director general, Institute of Directors)
• Turbulent times - business as usual: 4.5m jobs created or destroyed in 12 months! (Prof Mark Hart, deputy director, Enterprise Research Centre)
• Why Berlin's tech scene has the perfect balance of creativity and chaos (Alex Wood, editor, The Memo)
• We should celebrate capitalism's moral side (Marian L Tupy, senior policy analyst, Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity)
• Politicians could use a business lesson from UK entrepreneurs (Philip Salter, director, The Entrepreneurs Network)

• QZ: Egypt's 'Tahrir Alley' boosts startups despite political instability and violence
• Inc: 10 brilliant business books of 2017

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