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Overcoming your legacy S peaking recently with Estonian entrepreneurs, I was told that, in having to rebuild their country’s infrastructure after the fall of the Soviet Union, the people of Estonia were able to create a bureaucracy with technology at its heart. Now the nation has one of the most innovative administrations in the world. That’s why I decided to dedicate this issue of Elite Business to those innovators who don’t let legacy systems prevent them from innovating. Whether it’s the tech talent transforming our transport infrastructure, startups like Flux bring the public paperless and pain-free receipts or the blockchain brainboxes disrupting investment using
cryptocurrencies, our pages this issue are packed with entrepreneurs who definitely weren’t afraid to stick it to the status quo. Daniel Attia definitely fits into this category. Few industries have resisted disruption so ardently as estate agency but Attia refused to listen to the naysayers claiming that it was impossible to bring innovation to the industry. Now his startup Yopa is winning over agents from its bricksand-mortar competitors and counts Savills among its backers. Josh Russell - Editor josh.russell@cemedia.co.uk
contributors
Eric Johansson Our resident Viking loves all things tech. Luckily, he had his fill in this issue finding out how technology is revolutionising transport and how it may save Britain’s shopkeepers.
ANIL STOCKER Late payments is a particular pet peeve of MarketInvoice’s founder, which is why he’s penned a piece in this issue about how big businesses coughing up their dues too late can harm UK SMEs.
GARY STEWART A recent trip to Africa showed Wayra UK’s director how underrepresented the continent’s entrepreneurs are and how VCs may be biased against minority founders around the world.
Emilie Sandy It’s hardly a secret that Sandy’s high-quality photographs make us constantly commission her services. And her images of our cover star Daniel Attia are absolutely true to form.
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