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 …
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Sherwood Neiss – Startup Iceland 2014 – Speaker Profile
I am really happy to start the series on the Profile of Speakers lineup that we have for Startup Iceland …
Startup Iceland 2014 – A Reason to Visit Iceland
This post was originally posted through the LinkedIn Publishing, LinkedIn has launched a publishing platform and I was invited to …
Thubten Comerford
Acknowledged by Business Insider as one of the “Best Connected Entrepreneurs” in the world, Thubten Comerford is a seasoned business builder who …
Investor-Startup Ecosystem
The blog post is motivated by an article by knowledge@wharton business school with the title “The Next Generation of Investor-Startup …
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 …
Day 1 – CEO Bootcamp
I started writing this post on the first day of the CEO Bootcamp, but the bootcamp was so intense on …
Getting to Yes
I was reminded yesterday of a blog post that I wrote a while back about True Grit, the persistent, relentless …
Two key deficits of the founder CEO…
… when compared with a professional CEO”. I had to complete the sentence because some of the founder CEO’s go …
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 …
Tinkering with the Business Model
Last evening we had Einar Gunnar Gudmundsson from Arion Bank speak at my Rotary Club, I have been a Rotarian …
Leadership – Lesson 1- Vision
Every leadership initiative starts with a Vision, “I have a Dream!” speech by Dr.Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela‘s Vision …
Startup Iceland 2014- June 2nd and 3rd – Mark your calendars
The annual Startup Iceland Conference on Entrepreneurship and Building Antifragile Startup Ecosystem in Iceland is happening on June 2nd and …
Strategy is always about Action
I joined the Executive team in Glitnir in February 2006. The bank had an event in Luxembourg called “Meet the …
Startup Iceland 2014 – Calling for Ideas and speakers
We have started thinking about Startup Iceland 2014. The overarching mission of Startup Iceland is to build a sustainable/antifragile startup …
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 …
QuizUp
Icelandic Startup Plain Vanilla Games launched their new game Quiz Up and it has been getting a lot of attention …
Building Startup Communities
Every city was once a startup, famous words spoken by Brad Feld when I have seen him position his book …
Building Bridges from Iceland for Entrepreneurs
I am a big believer that in order to really bring strength to the Startup Community in Iceland we need …