Three Budget pleas from a tech entrepreneur
With a few key measures, the government could could demonstrate that it’s behind entrepreneurs this Budget, writes John Cotterell
This week it’s Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and my company, Endava, is very pleased to be taking part as a lead partner. We’re backing GEW because we’re 100 per cent behind the cause of promoting entrepreneurship.
With a few key measures in this Budget, the government could demonstrate that it is too.
Endava has been around for 25 years. We’re a US-listed company operating in 26 countries and employing 12,000 people, but we were once a UK start-up too and I am still very much an entrepreneur.
I grew up knowing I wanted to run a company. I trained as a civil engineer, but the only part of engineering that I found interesting was the client conversations and the shaping of things with architects. I realised I wanted to be in business, so I did an MBA and came out of that looking for exciting growing industries, one of which........





















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