News
- Call for digital adoption fund to boost small business productivity (Growth Business covers new Coadec report)
- Bounce Back Loan Scheme top-ups open for eligible businesses (British Business Bank)
- Rishi Sunak extends furlough scheme till end of March and increases support to self-employed (Elite Business)
- Some 19,000 jobs for 16-24s created under government Kickstart scheme (CityAM)
- Y Combinator doubles European founder intake after going remote (Sifted)
- Early-stage VC funds have the potential to generate higher returns (new research from British Business Bank)
Opinion
- The second lockdown risks an insolvency tsunami (Mark Hart, deputy director, Enterprise Research Centre)
- Myth-busting in European venture capital (Ha Duong, investment principal, Ocean Investment)
- Chasing unicorns: Can smaller European states compete? (Steven Frigerio, founder, The Hive Effect)
- If Rishi Sunak must tax the rich, it should be on private equity’s carried interest, not entrepreneurs’ CGT (Jim Armitage, Evening Standard)
- Working from home already has a tax disadvantage, we don’t need any new ones on top (Sam Dumitriu, research director, The Entrepreneurs Network)
- London’s thriving future depends on giving today’s youngsters a chance (CityAM)
Features
- Kansas City: Kansas welcomed my immigrant parents. Then I built Dropbox, an $8 billion company
- Forbes: Software unicorn GitLab’s CEO warns you’re probably doing remote work wrong
- Sifted: Sir Ronald Cohen: “The VC industry has to wake up”
- FT: What can Silicon Valley expect from Joe Biden?
- The Economist: China takes aim at its entrepreneurs
- BBC: The dads getting entrepreneurial in lockdown