Posts by BalaInIceland

Investor, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Startup Coach, Startup Community Hacker, 8 Marathons, 1 Icelandic Financial Collapse, Principle Centered & working hard to do the Right thing

Decentralization accelerating

The following Apps have been banned in India. The decentralization of the App Market place has started. Balaji S. Srinivasan …

Space – the final frontier

Space is the final frontier and it is inspiring to see a founder bring the dream of space exploration back to humanity. We can look with awe into the future and kindle our curiosity to explore again.

Refactoring Work

How we work has been changing since the advent of machines. The last 2 decades have seen the total transformation of how we are able to leverage technology at the workplace. Refactoring work to enable a Human+Machine paradigm is going to become the next norm that means it is going to take less capital to build companies contrary to what is believed by the VC industry

Startup Supernova

Iceland once again has an accelerator and it is called Startup Supernova.

Entrepreneurship and Mental Wellness

Entrepreneurship is a truth game and it can be a massive mental rolacoaster if the founder does not take care. Here is a 4 part series from Techstars on Entrepreneurship and Mental Health.

A.I. Video Bot technology

A.I. Video Bot technology can unleash the power of democratizing access to knowledge and wisdom. Iceland Venture Studio invested in Expertrons which is solving the access to mentors problem using technology.

Founders

Startup Iceland was started with the a vision to empower founders, in these times of chaos we need founders more …

Truthfulness

One should never knowingly speak a lie either for the sake of one’s advantage or for the sake of another person’s advantage or for the sake of any advantage what so ever
– Buddha

Indo – a neo decentralized bank

Iceland Venture Studio invested in Indo the first neo decentralized bank coming out of Iceland. Read more on why we invested in this team

Privacy, Health and Democracy

We should definitely make use of new technologies too, but these technologies should empower citizens. I am all in favor of monitoring my body temperature and blood pressure, but that data should not be used to create an all-powerful government – Yuval Hariri

It is (the best of) time(s)…

COVID-19 is going to fundamentally change how we do things in the future. Digital technologies are going to become standard business tools. Automation, Cloud and Mobile native solutions will win.

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