Sovereignty Is an Asset Class: Why a Small Nation Should Price Its Own Levers in a Power-Law World
This is the fifth piece in a series on Iceland’s economy and the August 29 referendum on reopening EU accession …
Finance
A Loan, Not a Gift: On the Prime Minister, the Euro, and the Promise of Lower Interest Rates
This analysis critiques Iceland’s Prime Minister’s arguments for EU membership regarding monetary sovereignty. It emphasizes that historical examples show joining the euro could lead to lower initial interest rates but also hidden risks, mispricing, and inflation issues. The author advocates for domestic reforms instead of abandoning currency sovereignty.
Reforming Iceland’s Economy: The Myth of Euro Benefits
The Engine Is Ours to Rebuild: Why the Euro Won’t Fix Iceland’s Cost of Capital — and What Would This …
Why Iceland’s Mortgage Indexation Persists Despite Public Outcry
The Painkiller That Became the Disease: Why Iceland Cannot Let Go of Indexation Every few years, Iceland decides to abolish …
Iceland’s Mortgage Market After the Supreme Court: From Discretion to Discipline
In October 2025, the Icelandic mortgage market reached an inflection point. The Supreme Court ruled against Íslandsbanki in a landmark …
Indó – Reinventing Banking
Indo is the first challenger bank in Iceland to have received a banking license. The founders will be hosting a meetup in partnership with Startup Iceland on May 12th to share their experience.
Startup or Shutdown Slovakia
I will be speaking at Startup or Shutdown Slovakia about Startup thinking. Will be interesting to learn about the Startup Community there
Zero to One
I am looking forward to the book by Peter Thiel with the above title. Here is a brief description for …
How to release the Currency Controls in Iceland
For those of us living in Iceland, the notion of living in a currency control regime that was instituted in …
Where is the value in Bitcoins?
So I am getting obsessed with Bitcoins now! I met with an Entrepreneur in Iceland, well he is a Computer …
Bitcoins
Brad Feld had a very interesting post about Bitcoins and Fred has been a fan of Bitcoins. Given that I …
SI2013 – Speaker Profile – John Sechrest
I got connected to John through Kristjan Freyr Kristjanson, CEO of Innovit+Klak and who runs Startup Weekend in Iceland. I …
Organizing Angel Capital
As we are starting the preparation for Startup Iceland 2013 (have you signed up and marked your calendar yet?), one of the …
What kills you makes the ecosystem stronger
I have been having so much fun watching Nicholas Nassim Taleb talk about Antifragility. Did I mention that I am …
Why Startups Create more Jobs than big companies
The malaise that we have started to notice in the world around of the protracted recovery from the 2008 financial …
UnConference, Capitalists Dilemma and Return of the Capital Intensive Startup
Here is a mashup of three ideas that prompted me to write this post. First, I was part of the …
How to allocate the Option Pool?
The only currency a startup has other than cash which you need to run the daily experiments to find the …
Financial Metrics
I have written about my philosophy that “What gets measured gets done!”, financial management is a critical piece in the …
2 reasons why a startup fails
The first reason is obvious and I am not sure if I have repeated it enough… Startups fail not because …
2 Rules to manage your cashflow
I have agreed to write guest posts in the Personal Finance Section in Under30CEO.com. I wanted to write about this …