What is Venture Investing?
I think Venture Investing is misunderstood. There are a lot of people who wanna be VCs and then there is Fred Wilson. I share my own experience of working with founders and share what I think VC investing is all about
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Investing in Trust
I think Jerry Colonna is awesome and of course I don’t have to say anything about Fred Wilson. I see …
When Capital is a Commodity
I have been a big fan and follower of Mark Suster with Upfront Ventures. His latest blog post is a …
Venture Investing is same as the Monty Hall Problem
If you are wondering what the Monty Hall Problem is all about, here is an excerpt from the movie “21”. …
It never rains but it pours – Another $40 million for growth stage Startups in Iceland
Yes, you heard me. Frumtak closed their Frumtak II fund (In Icelandic) and they will be investing in growth stage startups. …
$50 million to be invested in Icelandic startups
I am really happy to report that Eyrir Invest has closed a fund with Arion Bank to invest approximately USD …
Why is power law difficult to understand
I believe that we live in the world of Power Law, I have written about it before. I even wrote …
Investor-Startup Ecosystem
The blog post is motivated by an article by knowledge@wharton business school with the title “The Next Generation of Investor-Startup …
Best of times to be an Entrepreneur and Venture Investor
I cannot emphasize enough the exciting opportunities that are in front of us. In case you have not noticed, Andreessen …
Investor, Founders and the journey of building companies
The last 6 years, I have been breathing Entrepreneurship, Startups and Venture Investing. I have more or less confronted most of the …
Investing in Startups
I had no idea what to do when I first decided that I wanted to invest in Entrepreneurship and Startups. …
QuizUp
Icelandic Startup Plain Vanilla Games launched their new game Quiz Up and it has been getting a lot of attention …
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 …
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 …
Plain Vanilla Games
It was great to see Plain Vanilla Games, an Icelandic Game Development company raise $2.4 million Series A round with …
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 …
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 …