Founders Ventures Backs ALDIN Biodome for Climate Resilience
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFounders Ventures Invests in ALDIN Biodome to Create Geo-Climate Infrastructure in Iceland Reykjavik, Iceland — [November 22, 2024] …
Hospitality
The future of Air Travel
The future of air travel is not what we experience today. There are alternatives and one company is working to solve this problem and it looks like they will be successful. Boom is bringing supersonic travel back by building a new aircraft with technological advances from other fields like computing, materials and engineering. Exciting times ahead for air travel
Xiaochen Tian – Speaker Profile – SI2016
I am really happy to announce Xiaochen Tian as one of the speakers in Startup Iceland 2016. I got to …
Building endurance
Building Endurance in your company is a function of Mission, Vision, Values and Leadership. It is easier to define when you are in the Startup stage but very difficult to keep focus on. Large companies fall because they take their focus away from it.
#YouCanLearnAnything
This blog is motivated by an article that I read written by Sal Khan of Khan Academy. The summary of …
Continuing the Hospitality Theme – Seattle and Buuteeq
Forest Key, the CEO of Buuteeq giving an introduction to buuteeq and also talking about Company culture. We were one …
Travel, Tourism and Hospitality in Iceland
After a long break, I am back to blogging on a regular basis with this post. I took a sabbatical …
How many tourists are going to visit Iceland in 2012
Spoke at conference on Tourism and Investment yesterday. I may have said things that were not in agreement with the …
Validated Learning in Hospitality Development
I will be speaking in the “Ferðaþjónusta og fjárfestingar“ conference sponsored by Landsbanki and the Ministry of Industry, Iceland and organized by …
Race to the Top
My friend Stjani was watching Seth Godin talk about our obsession in the Race to the bottom, i.e. continuously seeking …
Iceland tourism in numbers
I find this publication quite interesting and says a lot about the tourism industry in Iceland. http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf?mode=mini&backgroundColor=%23222222&documentId=110323110406-52848f3c215347fdbf8f8b427f588f29 Open publication – …