Checklist Manefesto – Book Review
I have been listening to the Checklist Manefesto book by Dr.Atul Gawande. I have to say I am really digging …
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Stockdale Paradox
Let me give context before I jump into why I believe this is one of the most important philosophical ideas …
How do you achieve your goals?
I have been blogging since 2004, not as active as I have been since 2011. I believe blogging or writing …
S.M.A.R.T Goals or Metrics
Do you have a ScoreBoard for your Startup? Well, if you don’t you need to get one. Once you have …
Startup Management – Masterfully Curated Resources for every startup
Fred Wilson wrote about an AVC regular William Mougayar is building an education oriented community for entrepreneurs called Startup Management (SUM). I wanted to bring …
Analysis Paralysis
You can really pass on a great deal based on how you think. Here is a great post by Fred …
Why we dont have more Women in Leadership
I have written about why this is the best and by far the most exciting time to be a women …
Iceland Seafood Cluster
I have been writing a lot about Entrepreneurship and Startups, but I am not a big fan of the Cluster …
High Risk, Low Data Decision
I have been reading the book “Crossing the Chasm” by Geoffrey A. Moore again. I highly recommend the book to …
Startup Weekend Reykjavik
Startup Weekend Reykjavik happend this last weekend. I volunteered again as a mentor and it was a lot of fun. …
Startup Risk
I usually get really worked up when I am speaking with some employees in a bank about Startups and Entrepreneurship, …
Bootstrapping vs Raising capital
I had planned to do a meetup this week and discuss the above topic. Never got around to it, but …
Disruption revisited and redefined
The word Disruption has a negative context, the definition according to Dictionary.com is 1. ( tr ) to throw into turmoil or disorder 2. ( tr ) to interrupt the progress of (a movement, meeting, etc) 3. to break or split (something) apart I …
Startup Iceland 2013 – Platform to present your Startup
We had our planning meeting yesterday and Stefan suggested that we should have the startups from Iceland and around the …
Transitions in a Startup
Seth Levin of the Foundry Group has a very good post on the transition of a startup from the product …
Organizing Angel Capital
As we are starting the preparation for Startup Iceland 2013 (have you signed up and marked your calendar yet?), one of the …
Open Source Entrepreneurship
Steve Blank has been one of the bloggers, Entrepreneurs and Gurus who has been writing about and teaching entrepreneurship in …
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 …
Prospect Theory and Entrepreneurship
It fascinating to read Daniel Kahneman’s writing on Risk and Heuristics and human psychology. I have recommended his book “Thinking …
How to allocate the Option Pool?
The only currency a startup has other than cash which you need to run the daily experiments to find the …