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.
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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 …
Revolution against Finance
I saw the interview of Steve Keen on Silfur Egils and I am sure if not all many of the Icelandersdid too. …
Valuation of a startup – the holy grail?
I have been getting a lot of questions related to How does one value Startups. The best reference for valuation …
How to survive as an Investor
Image via Wikipedia Got the idea to write this post after reading the article by James Altucher titled “How to Survive Your …
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 …