Design thinking and Iceland Academy of the Arts
I have been a Rotarian since 2007, and I have found the weekly Rotary meetings as the most serendipitous …
Sustainability
Startup Energy Reykjavik
Iceland has one of the best infrastructures period. I don’t have concrete data to back up that claim, but I …
3 reasons why you should attend Startup Iceland
I have been debating this internally, I would really like your feedback on this. Do you feel that there is …
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 …
Iceland Seafood Cluster
I have been writing a lot about Entrepreneurship and Startups, but I am not a big fan of the Cluster …
Women in Technology
There is a lot of coverage and tweets about Sheryl Sandberg‘s new book “Lean In” and for the decision Marissa …
Startup Iceland 2013 – Building Antifragile Entrepreneurial-Startup Ecosystems
We have started the preparation for Startup Iceland 2013. While the full blow website is getting ready to be launched, …
Startup Slovenia
I was invited by Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development (CEED) Ljubljana, Slovenia as a keynote speaker for Investor Day …
Wealth or Value is not created through Debt
I think I know enough about banking to say that debt creates very little wealth or value. I have often …
Tolerance, Inclusion and Prosperity
I had a bit of a disagreement with Fred Wilson, who is one of my virtual mentors through his blog …
UnConference, Capitalists Dilemma and Return of the Capital Intensive Startup
Here is a mashup of three ideas that prompted me to write this post. First, I was part of the …
Why build a Startup Community?
I started on this long term view that Iceland can be a fantastic place to create a Startup Community, some of …
What does it mean to Execute?
I was very impressed with the blog post by Ben Kaufman titled “What Raising Money Means to Me“. I believe personal …
ORF Genetics – A Startup Profile
I met Dr.Bjorn and Dr.Julius in 2009, while they were trying to launch a subsidiary of Orf Genetics. Orf Genetics …
Internet Defense League
Want to be a superhero? well, now you have a chance on the eve of the launch of The Dark …
Startup Revolution
Brad Feld is working on 4 books this summer, he has structured his new blog based on those themes. I …
GreenQloud, Geometric Progressions and Renewable Energy in IT
My first blog post as CEO of GreenQloud. the image you see is the beautiful graphic design generated by the Mandelbrot …
Efficiency != Sustainability
I started working with technology as an intern in India for a small startup which was building software for Financial …
Who needs another Silicon Valley?
Gunnar Holmstein, the Colorful CEO of Clara comes up with interesting perspectives. He has a question about if startup ecosystems …
Autonomy-Mastery-Purpose Incentives that work
Daniel Pink is a Career Analyst or that is what the Ted biography describes what he does. I have seen …