article_snippet.sent: The jobs figures alone are astounding: 2 million more people are in work –
article_snippet.sent: Businesses are starting in record numbers.
article_snippet.sent: However, it is very fragile and hard to nurture, and the mobility of the modern business world means a tech firm can start up as easily in Berlin or Silicon Valley as they can in London, so they're not going to pick a place which they perceive will make it hard for they to thrive.
article_snippet.sent: I started selling mobile phones from my flat.
article_snippet.sent: And in the age of the start-up, government has to make life easier for people to get going.
article_snippet.sent: I was speaking to an Italian contact recently who told me that anyone starting a small business in Italy gets sucked into a quagmire of bureaucracy, treated like some massive enterprise with anyone starting a small business in Italy own accounting department.
article_snippet.sent: George Osborne couldn't believe that in Britain you could get online and register your company in a few short steps – and that is to the Conservatives' credit.