Beauhurst comments on the ICAEW’s Small Business Taskforce manifesto to government with ten recommendations for things that they believe need to happen in order to keep Britain one of the best countries to start and grow a business in. These recommendations, outlined in the Small Business Manifesto, will be presented to ministers in upcoming meetings with the relevant policy makers over the next few weeks. 

Founders fight.  It’s how they fight that matters.  Do they fight like a married couple (staying together), a married couple (wanting a divorce), siblings, in the primary school playground, as in politics or in an apocalyptic environment or even within themselves?  Or do they bottle up and then explode?  Why does this matter? 

Erin Platts, Head of Relationship Banking, EMEA at Silicon Valley Bank UK discusses this important issue. 

In the latest podcast from The Invested Investor, serial investor Simon Blakey shares his first rate tips from two decades of Angel Investing!

2018 earnings forecasts, Edison view: “Geopolitics will in our view continue to present headline risk for the rest of the year. The US/China trade détente has broken apart as the US administration addresses the prospect of China challenging for dominance in the world economy.”

GTM I - The Detail:  What are the individual areas we should think about?

Earlier we set up Why we’re all in Sales – setting out the mind set for thinking about customers and Go-to-Market/GTM – that holistic approach that considers a customer’s experience as first priority.

Now that you’ve got the mind set, here’s the top 6 GTM areas for Seed invested companies to consider:

EISA commissioned a national survey of more than 2000 respondents to uncover how Brexit negotiations are affecting the sentiment of investors towards SME investment in 2018.

Kuber Ventures' Dermot Campbell discusses the growing importance of Knowledge Intensive Companies.

Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere Group, comments on The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) cryptocurrency review. 

William Armstrong was an inventor, scientist, industrialist and philanthropist. He is most famous for revolutionising artillery during the Crimean war.

The Week That Was is released by OFF3R. At OFF3R you can compare investments from leading equity crowdfunding and peer to peer lending sites through to robo-advisors and stocks and shares ISAs.

Spotify makes its market debut, a flurry of fintech floats & turbulent tech stocks.

Read the latest blog published by Simon Murdoch at Episode1 Ventures.  Simon will be a keynote speaker at our Great British Private Investor Summit on 24th May.  Hope you can join us.  Get your ticket here.