A Wake for QuizUp
A wake for Quizup, a successful startup from Iceland, had 80m downloads, raised over $40m in Venture Capital, employed over 100 people and then suddenly died
Fail
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 …
Hubris and Learning
Hubris according to Merriam Webster is a great or foolish amount of pride or confidence. I meet and talk to …
Giving up is the greatest failure
Entrepreneurship is life and life is entrepreneurship. I have been thinking long and hard about what is the one quality …
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?
Startup Iceland Conference – Go/No Go decision April 28
I have been writing about all the challenges of hosting a conference. We have the speakers lined up, we believe …
Financial Crisis 2012 – Worse than 2008
Tyler Durden’s Guest post of Zero Hedge is an excellent analysis of all the head winds that is against us …
Its official… Icelandic Financial System has collapsed
If someone had told me that the Icelandic Financial System and all the large banks in Iceland would collapse 6 …