KeyWe – Startup Profile
Keywe is an Edtech startup from Iceland that incorporates neuroscience and how our brain works to enable anyone using the platform to learn any topic of interest
Investment Thesis
Disruptive technology is not just for Startups
Silicon Valley and most startup founders that I speak to are obsessed with disruption. We are into the election cycle, …
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 …
Technology is the foundation
Technology is the foundation of every business. “The business plan of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. This a big deal, and it’s here.” – Kevin Kelly
Quantified Self
The image above is from the Glass Brain Project. You can read and learn more about this from the interview of …
Virtual and Augmented Reality
VR and Augmented Reality is the next platform after the Smart Mobile Phone.
Artificial Intelligence
The most exciting breakthroughs of the future will not occur because of technology but because of our understanding of what …
Beating Diabetes Again
I was diagnosed with Prediabetes when I was 33 or 9 years back. This was just when we had decided …
Learning Startups
I took a break from writing daily. It has been a great time of self reflection and spending quality time …
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.
Retail has been disrupted
I had a chance to visit Poppy Barley, one of the startups that graduated from Startup Edmonton. I think they …
How we’ll live on Mars
I have finished listening to the book How We’ll Live on Mars (TED Books) by Stephen L. Petranek. Like everyone in …
Raw Food SOS
I guess you can officially label me as obsessed with Food now. I am consuming so much information about Food, …
Genetics and Epigenetics
It is just fantastic to learn how our genetic makeup works. Especially when my doctors point to the fact that …
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
As Hippocrates said, Let Food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. I have changed my food and voila changed my blood sugar levels back to normal without any medication.
Confusion about Food, Diet, Nutrition and Healthy living
Food, nutrition, diet and health living has become too confusing. There are too many methods to follow and it has become complicated. The sad truth is there is no one simple solution.
Brandur Bjarnason Karlsson
I met Brandur Bjarnason Karlsson a year back. I had no idea that he was paralyzed neck down. He contacted …
Iceland has the world’s best diet?
I am looking at Food and Diet with my Startup thinking hat. Like all typical research I went to the …
Food and our body
I was diagnosed to be a borderline diabetic in January 2006. I went to work on myself dropped some weight and …
Startup thinking and the Ocean
In case you missed the announcement, Startup Iceland is teaming up with the Iceland Ocean Cluster to bring #Startupthinking to …