Building Great Products
It is very easy to be different, but it is very difficult to be better -Jonathan Ive In today’s How …
Product Development
Javascript Community – Reykjavik
I was at the Javascript Community meetup yesterday hosted at Quizup HQ. It was exciting to see so many developers and participants …
Building Products Users Love
Hardware products are really hard to get right. I was reading an article where Jonathan Ives, the VP of Design …
User Interviews a.k.a Product Validation
I think it is important to start with big vision, but have the courage to narrow the problem down to …
There is no Spoon
I was invited to give a lecture to the class of MBA students at Reykjavik University. The topic I am …
Embrace the chaos
Building a culture in a team or startup that embraces chaos and works through it is a unique skill. Mailchimp team has more or less done that.
How much do you care about your customers?
When I was CEO of GreenQloud there are many things that I am proud of what and how we did, but …
Building a great product
Building anything is an iterative process. Every great product that you can think of did not start out being great …
To the left of Impossible
This week has been an explosion of ideas, learning and possibilities personally for me. How to Start a Startup class …
Tulipop Founders – Signy and Helga – Speaker Profile – Startup Iceland 2014
Startup Iceland is almost here, if you have not booked your tickets please do it. We have a great line …
Cost of Research
“If we knew what we are doing, we would not call it research” – Albert Einstein I participated in the …
Duolingo.com
Union Square Ventures just announced their investment in Duolingo.com. The company founder Luis Von Ahn is so smart and has …
Mobile First Web Second
View from Summer House Fred Wilson has been writing for a long time about the shift in the emphasis to …
Startup Iceland – Leaner, Meaner, Global and ON
Wow! what a difference 1 day makes! I want to say yesterday was a low day for me when the …
Customer Development and Running Experiments
We had our 9th meetup this year discussing customer development and running experiments
Entrepreneurial Design – Revisited
I have written about the course being offered in the School of Design in NY with the title Entrepreneurial Design …
Business Model vs. Business Plan
There is a fundamental difference between a business model and business plan. A Business Model defines how you will make …
Waste vs Value – 7th Lean Startup Meetup
We had our 7th meetup on the Lean Startup and the topic of discussion today was Determining Waste vs Value. …
Strategies to Test Business Hypothesis – 6th Meetup
We had our 6th Meetup @Cafe Solon last evening. We once again had a very good turn up, around 30 …
Business as a Hypothesis – 5th Meetup
We had a very good turn out for the 5th meetup to discuss the book the Lean Startup. We had …