Matt Smith

entrepreneurship policy and research

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

Seriously, @UberUK ? Regent’s Place Plaza, London

[GEW UK 🇬🇧 @GEWUK]

Global Entrepreneurship Week is GO! GO! GO!

In the #UK, we kicked off a week of events by opening the @LSEGplc markets with support of @endava alongside some of the most important #startup support organisations in the country!

https://t.co/fS4vCUPhpI

#gew2025 #togetherwebuild

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of @scaleupinst and the launch of the Scaleup Annual Review 2025, highlighting a record 44,595 scaleups and a further 20,980 in the pipeline #GEWUK #GEW2025 @GEWUK

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

Another one bites the (saw)dust

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

There is something deeply wrong when a law passed with cross-party consensus and endorsed by Britain's most trusted charities has made it impossible to run an internet forum for hamster owners.

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

Happy 50th birthday to ⁦@FSB_Voice⁩ @fsb_policy⁩! Congrats to ⁦@craigie_b⁩ and colleagues for delivering grounded, reliable, and highly impactful advocacy and support to small businesses across the UK. Here’s to the next 50 years!

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

@limebike (I moved it out of the road)

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

@limebike this is shockingly bad. Ban this user.

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

@limebike McNeil Road, SE5

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

Ten years on, this letter still perfectly encapsulates the value of entrepreneurship, the hunger for innovation among consumers, and the entitlement of incumbents

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

Damn all these entrepreneurs 'arrogantly' disrupting the marketplace and delivering what the customer wants...

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

@CommunityFibre what a waste of posted marketing collateral! Why even bother?

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

A remarkably similar change is also taking place in Australia, with @cmack4life leading the fight against it:
https://t.co/26KaN0JXVB

cc @hannahprevett @ChadRenando

[Emma Sinclair MBE @ES_Entrepreneur]

❌Bad news for women in the UK: On Jan 31 new legislation comes in increasing barriers to entry for women angel investors.

➡️Now: investors on angel investing platforms have to earn over £100k.

➡️Jan 31: new legislation raises it to £170k.

😡Issue: This will disproportionally impact the size of the pool of female investors in the UK & founders. Less female angels to invest in female founders, who because they only get 2% of VC money, rely heavily on angel funding.

🤯Unfathomable decision that needs urgent reversing pls @KemiBadenoch

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

Sad and unexpected news. As for many in the entrepreneurship education field, Kate was the first person to welcome me into the @EEUK community 16 years ago. She was a bedrock of the ecosystem and loved by all.

[Enterprise Educators @EEUK]

Some very sad news this morning.
Our deepest condolences to Kate's family from all at EEUK. She will be greatly missed.
https://t.co/xGQbbpNA4R

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

@timothy_barnes @ConorGogarty It’s an absolute mess. CH needs KYC for company directors (and should have implemented it over a decade ago)

[Dom Hallas @Dom_Hallas]

What's in the Autumn Statement for Tech Startups. Headline: It's pretty good. Here's a thread of what to look at.... 🧵

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

✈️ From Britain to Bilbao! Glad to be putting the ‘global’ in Global Entrepreneurship Week. Looking forward to participating in the EU SME Assembly over the coming days #GEW2023

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

It’s the 16th Global Entrepreneurship Week and, with the history of UK Enterprise Week, the 20th overall campaign.

This week (+ wider month) there’s 100s of brilliant events including ones by @TheGENUK @TenThinkTank @scaleupinst @EntrepreneursGB @CfEntrepreneurs & @enttruth

[Global Entrepreneurship Network @unleashingideas]

Global Entrepreneurship Week 2023 is officially underway! Watch the annual opening address from movement co-founder and GEN president Jonathan Ortmans.

https://t.co/XJGxESSL8C

#GEW2023 #EntrepreneursThriveHere

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

Great to have minister for enterprise, markets and small business @kevinhollinrake join us @HSBCInnovation to formally open Global Entrepreneurship Week in the UK
#GEW2023 @TheGENUK

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

@timothy_barnes @CfEntrepreneurs .@artistsmakers @DavidJarratt1 worth keeping an eye out for this upcoming @ukonward research

[Jonathan Ortmans @Jortmans]

Great to see @TheGENUK leading a conversation on refugee entrepreneurship as part of Refugee Week. Entrepreneurship not only offers new opportunities to people forced from their homelands, but brings new thinking and potential to local ecosystems. https://t.co/wdMqy5DzW9

[Matt Smith @mattTP]

An action-packed and inspiring week @LDNTechWeek & @thenextweb helping launch the @unleashingideas @startupgenome #GSER2023, connecting with global policymakers, and celebrating the strength of European tech!