Startup Iceland

Startup Iceland 2019: Speaker Profile: Kaidi Ruusalepp

I am happy to announce the Kaidi Ruusalepp, the Founder and CEO of Funderbeam, will speak this year at Startup …

Home Business Basics: How to Get Your Idea Off the Ground

Whether you are a crafting hobbyist looking to acquire clients or a trained marketer seeking to widen your field of …

How the Internet of Things is evolving from B2C into B2B: one Icelandic startup some answers.

The Internet of Things. The once ubiquitous tech phrase that was on everyone’s lips back when Amazon launched the Echo …

How Busy Professionals Can Reduce Stress And Focus On Their Goals

For many busy professionals, work is simply a way of life. It can be easy to forget that there’s more …

Seeing Things Differently

Meet Gede[1]. He is 28, lives in Bandung, Java, Indonesia, and has Type 2 diabetes. Gede lost his sight from …

Future of Software Development

It was wonderful to attend the Blue Yard Conversation: The Future of Software Development #fosd in Reykjavik. I was blown …

Competition destroys Capital

Competition can make people hallucinate opportunities where none exists and more importantly it destroys capital, character and usually creates nothing new

Matt Mullenweg and Om Malik – Speaker Profile #SI2018

Matt Mullenweg and Om Malik will talk about 15 years of WordPress, Open Source and the anti-Facebook movement in Startup Iceland 2018.

The most important things in life are singular. Time and decision making are singular and follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others. However, you can’t trust a world that denies the power law to accurately frame your decisions for you, so what’s more important is rarely obvious. It might even be a secret. But in a power law world, you can’t afford not to think hard about where your actions will fall on the curve. Decision to attend Startup Iceland is one of those moments.

Business as usual is no longer acceptable – world thought leader presenting April 9-13 in Reykjavik on new innovative approaches

Voices all across the globe from all levels of society are ringing loud and clear that business as usual is …

The Driver in the Driverless Car – Book Review

By most estimates, it will be marching down our streets in the early 2020’s. The advent of it is inevitable …

Blogging for Entrepreneurs

How do you find your personal direction or find focus for your company? Where can you project your personal brand, …

Age of Data, Machines and A.I.

Age of Data, Machines and A.I. is upon us. Our personal data is probably the only thing that we will have agency over. Do we understand that?

A Copyright Primer for Startups

How might copyright protection be relevant for a startup? Here are some scenarios discussing the relevancy of copyright.

Igniting the Invisible Tribe – A Book Review

Igniting the Invisible Tribe: Designing An Organisation That Doesn’t Suck is a book that will force you to ask some important questions about your work.

Sapiens – A Book Profile

Sapiens-A Brief History of Human kind by Yuval Noah Hariri is a kind of book that makes you want to look at history and anthropology with a different eye.

How Socrates Can Help Your Startup

Socratic method can help startups learn more about the assumption of the startup. Pushback by others should force entrepreneurs to refine the business model

Seven Tips for Growing Your Bootstrapped Business – guest post

Building a business is hard especially if you are bootstrapping. Ron Don has successfully created a business using these 7 tips and is sharing his story

A Trademark Primer for Startups

When you are building a startup, you have more than enough things to worry about. Often, teams push off thinking about their intellectual property (IP), such as trademarks, copyrights, and patents, until they have established product-market fit and gained some traction. However, there are a number of reasons why it’s important to think about your IP from the start.