Getting Your Business “Household” in Order – with Pauline Malubay
When a person starts a company, they have to be prepared to switch out “hats” of their responsibilities all the …
Business
On Level 5 Leadership
Jim Collins, the influential management theorist, coined the phrase “Level 5″ leadership after his research team set out to answer …
Startup vs Entrepreneurship
While we are excited to see all the guests, founders, participants and festivities surrounding Startup Iceland 2015, it is in …
Iceland is a Black Box
Iceland is a black box when it comes to business reporting in english. I got a reference to an article …
Investing in people and teams
I have been meeting a lot of people about my new project, the feedback has been extremely positive. What is …
Sustaining vs Disruptive Innovation
I have been listening to Clay Christensen and Michael E. Raynor‘s book “The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth“. …
Why the publishing industry is broken – John Biggs – Startup Iceland 2014
John is funny and says it as he sees it. Here is a story of John working on a book …
Winds of Change in Iceland?
I spent the last friday and saturday in Reykjavik University, participating in an event organized by SI – The Federation of …
Hubris and Learning
Hubris according to Merriam Webster is a great or foolish amount of pride or confidence. I meet and talk to …
Thubten Comerford – Speaker Profile – Startup Iceland 2014
We have over 2.4 billion people online now and about 2 billion are on the way. In this hyper connected …
Learnings from CEO Bootcamp – Dealing with Fear and Failure
As an entrepreneur you are constantly fighting the grips of Fear, Doubt and Failure. It is a natural part of …
Leadership and Courage
As I wrote in my previous blog post, I have been glued to the book “The Hard Thing about Hard …
Giving up is the greatest failure
Entrepreneurship is life and life is entrepreneurship. I have been thinking long and hard about what is the one quality …
Leadership Reboot
I have mentioned it before I am rookie CEO. The leadership challenges of creating, building and scaling a company are …
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 …
On the road of building Startup Communities in Iceland
Brad Feld interviewing Jim Collins, two of my favorite business thought leaders and authors talking about a topic that I …
Bitcoins
Brad Feld had a very interesting post about Bitcoins and Fred has been a fan of Bitcoins. Given that I …
Focus
While you transition your company from being a idea to a startup to a small company to a big …
Marketing trumps Technology…
I have been having a very interesting discussion with my technology team, and I was made aware of this article …
Team Engagement and Leadership
I have been on the road for the past 2 weeks related to my role as CEO of GreenQloud. We …