Track Record, Trust and Leadership
I have more or less documented the journey since the day the Financial System in Iceland collapsed in 2008. There …
Investing
Investment Thesis and Strategy
Since I announced that I am setting up a Syndicate, I have had some requests on what and how I plan …
Building Startup Communities
Every city was once a startup, famous words spoken by Brad Feld when I have seen him position his book …
Golden Rule
I am always amazed at how we tend to forget the age old Golden Rule, you don’t know what that …
Patterns and Fallacies
I read a post by Om Malik, the founder of GigaOm with the title “Patterns and Fallacies: Why they have …
Iceland is Starting up
It is exciting to see the developments in Iceland as it relates to Entrepreneurship and Startups. There has been a …
Analysis Paralysis
You can really pass on a great deal based on how you think. Here is a great post by Fred …
SI2013 – Speaker Profile – Angela Jackson
We are keeping with the theme of Angel investors following yesterday’s post about John Sechrest. I got connected to Angela …
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 …
Disrupting the Food Industry
I read this interesting tweet by Vinod Khosla, one of the Co-founders of Sun Microsystems and then of Klein Perkins …
Icelandic Geothermal Cluster
Had a chance to meet with Hakon Gunnarsson, the Managing Director of Gekon and he has been leading the initiative …
Plain Vanilla Games
It was great to see Plain Vanilla Games, an Icelandic Game Development company raise $2.4 million Series A round with …
Iceland Seafood Cluster
I have been writing a lot about Entrepreneurship and Startups, but I am not a big fan of the Cluster …
Startup Risk
I usually get really worked up when I am speaking with some employees in a bank about Startups and Entrepreneurship, …
Accelerator for Investors
I have been thinking a lot about how to get new breed of investors into the fold of supporting the …
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 …
Something Ventured – the art of venture investing
Saw the documentary “Something Ventured – The Risk, Reward and the Original Venture Capitalists“. It was great! loved it… it …
We have a big exit in Iceland – DeCode Genetics
We finally have a big exit in Iceland for a startup that started it all in the Genetics space. This …
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 …