Hjalmar Gislason – Speaker Profile Startup Iceland 2019
Hjalmar Gislason the Founder and CEO of GRID will speak during Startup Iceland 2019. Hjalli has been one of Iceland’s …
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AWS Serverless Workshop at Startup Iceland 2019
Learn about the new Serverless computing paradigm during Startup Iceland 2019 in a workshop conducted by Amazon Solution Architect Anton Popovine.
Becoming a Mindful Founder
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, …
Accelerating Iceland
In a few short years we have changed the hearts and mind of everyone in Iceland about startups and entrepreneurship. The next phase of Startup Iceland is to ask the question how do we scale global companies from Iceland
Retail has been disrupted
I had a chance to visit Poppy Barley, one of the startups that graduated from Startup Edmonton. I think they …
How to Start a Startup – Lecture 2
Here is the link to the second lecture on How to Start a Startup class in Reykjavik University. The presentation …
$9 computer raises $1.1 million in less than a week on Kickstarter
This impressed me a LOT! Read about this tiny $9 computer that raised $1,162,573 in less than 7 days and what I think it’ll make in 24 days!
Help me to help you
Sometimes I feel like I am in the Jerry Maguire movie. I have been trying to get Founder Institute launched …
Do you want more POWER and INFLUENCE? (The “secret” behind gaining power)
I didn’t realize exactly how, but it’s been very easy for me in my adult life to get power when …
Building a Monopoly
I think I have listened and read Peter Thiel‘s book Zero to One about a 100 times now. There are …
Why Make Founders?
I have been running experiments related to Startups and investing in startups in Iceland for the past 6 years. I …
Investing in Trust
I think Jerry Colonna is awesome and of course I don’t have to say anything about Fred Wilson. I see …
Om Malik – Startup Iceland 2015 – Speaker Profile
I love Twitter, have I mentioned that before? Well, I do. Here is the interaction I had with Om at …
Bad news does not get Good with time
The last couple of days have been extremely frustrating, difficult and depressing me personally. Our daughter had her appendix ruptured, …
Founders Institute Reykjavik – Take #2
I believe anyone can learn the art of building great companies, everyone, I mean every single startup founder starting from …
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Finished reading the book “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Brad Stone. Actually I finished …
Do we need to look back before we succeed forwards?
I don’t make any new year’s resolutions. Ever. Let me tell you why. As I was sitting with my family last evening, …
How startups get acquired
I wanted to shed some light on how startups get acquired. When I talk to entrepreneurs and startup founders in …
4 Disciplines that define winning teams and founders
The 4 disciplines that I have noticed that more or less defines a winning team and/or founders are: Discipline to …
Nothing kills a startup faster than these 2 things
There are 2 things that usually kill a startup, I have written about 1 and 2 before: Legal – Legal Entity formation, …