Duolingo.com
Union Square Ventures just announced their investment in Duolingo.com. The company founder Luis Von Ahn is so smart and has …
Generation Gaps
I was exchanging emails with a friend about Wifi access. I was tweeting yesterday on the way to the Keflavik …
Island of Recovery
There is a front page article on the Wall Street Journal with the title “In European Crisis, Iceland Emerges as …
Is there a HP or Fairchild Semiconductor of Iceland?
Fred has a very interesting post about the Darwinian Evolution of Startup Hubs, it is very poignant and relevant for …
HTML 5 – the new Innovators Dilemma
There are game changers and there are Game Changers. HTML5 is the latter. We as humans are very bad at …
Investors, Term Sheets and Win-Win Deals
I am going to talk to the Class of 300 students on Monday about the following items: http://embed.wistia.com/flash/embed_player_v1.1.swf// How to …
Entrepreneurs from NYC in Startup Iceland
Hakon Agustsson pinged me on Facebook and mentioned that Matt Wilson of Under 30 CEO was going to be in …
The Startup is YOU
Here is an excerpt from the column by Thomas Friedman of New York Times with the title The Start-Up of …
BetriReykjavik.is – A Startup Profile
We are at an inflection point, for the first time in our history every single person has a voice. We …
Should overnight success take 11 years?
Saw this post on Facebook about Mr.Thordur Magnusson, the Chairman of Eyrir Invest. Eyrir has been one of the private …
Hackathon: What is it good for?
I have written about the dual definition of the word Hacker or Hacks. We are planning to have a Hackathon …
Social Media is Not Done! It is just getting started
There is a lot of discussion that Social Media is done, what with Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and your Mom wanting …
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 …
Hustle, Bootstrap do what it takes!
I love teams that hustle and never give up. Gunnar Holmstein, the CEO of Clara wrote a blog post about …
Locals Recommended – A Startup Profile
Met with Helgi Hermansson, former TV program producer, now an Entrepreneur trying to create a platform for video curation for …
Marketing on a Shoe String
As Entrepreneurs we are always faced with constraints related to marketing and selling our products and services, that is natural …
4x4OffRoads.com – A Startup Profile
4x4OffRoads.com is another business based out of Iceland that I believe is going to make it just like the example …
Marketing
Image via Wikipedia Does Iceland not know how to market or sell its products or services? Entrepreneur, investors and general public’s …
My vision for Iceland
Image via Wikipedia Iceland has a unique competitive advantage that is not discussed in the main stream media. Iceland can …
Project Genesis
Image via Wikipedia Project Genesis is an initiative to establish a $50 million venture capital fund in Iceland focusing on …