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
Bootstrapping
Strategies related to bootstrapping, examples of bootstrapping and Entrepreneurs applying the concept of bootstrapping
Penny wise and pound foolish
As a founder you are juggling many things, the biggest challenge is being penny wise and pound foolish. Don’t be make sure you are investing time and money in the right things.
Islandsbanki Entrepreneur Grant
I was invited to give a talk in an event organized by Islandsbanki to award grants to 6 entrepreneurial companies. …
Desperation is a great motivator
I was invited to give a 20 minute talk in the Project Management Association event (Verkefnastjórnunarfélag Íslands, yes I know it …
Winter is coming
I would be remiss to not write about Profligacy and Complacency given the warning signs coming from the likes of …
FI-RVK Chapter Launched! and 6 questions for every startup founder
Yes, we have launched a Beta/Exploratory chapter of Founders Institute in Reykjavik. You can apply now! I was interviewed by …
Advice is cheap
My last blog post should have kicked some of you off your backside to get stuff done… I know I …
Rework – Book Reveiw
I finished listening to ReWork, the book written by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson the founders of 37Signals. A software …
Starting up
I met with an entrepreneur yesterday and we talked and he told me that he originally had this idea in …
Learning from Failures – Better Place
Better Places the EV charging business had great promise but never materialized to change the world. Are there learnings from it?
Building Bridges from Iceland for Entrepreneurs
I am a big believer that in order to really bring strength to the Startup Community in Iceland we need …
Traction brings money; Money does not bring traction
I was at the Seed Forum this year, but I could not participate for the whole day but I attended …
Whats timing got to do with success?
I was listening to Helga Waage yesterday in the Startup Stories organized by Startup Reykjavik team. Helga is the co-founder of Mobilitus, …
Judging the Next Startup Chile Batch
I have accepted to be a judge in the selection process of the next batch of early stage companies that …
Should overnight success take 11 years?
Saw this post on Facebook about Mr.Thordur Magnusson, the Chairman of Eyrir Invest. Eyrir has been one of the private …
Starting Up Iceland
I have been frantically meeting and organizing the Startup Iceland Conference, here is the Facebook Event Page. While we are …
How to make your startup survive
The post is motivated by the answer I saw in Quora to a question that went like this “Where is …
Strategies to Test Business Hypothesis – 6th Meetup
We had our 6th Meetup @Cafe Solon last evening. We once again had a very good turn up, around 30 …
Hustle, Bootstrap do what it takes!
I love teams that hustle and never give up. Gunnar Holmstein, the CEO of Clara wrote a blog post about …
3 Great Global Challenges
I have been a fan of Thomas L. Friedman since I started reading the New York Times and then his …