When Capital is a Commodity
I have been a big fan and follower of Mark Suster with Upfront Ventures. His latest blog post is a …
Mark Suster
Scrum for Sales
I had an interesting conversation with Gudjon Mar Gudjonsson the founder and CEO of OZ. He asked a very good …
Why we don’t need a “Silicon” something in Iceland – Ben Kepes – Startup Iceland 2014
I really enjoyed the talk by Ben Kepes, who travels extensively and participates in various conferences as speaker, evangelist and …
Voted the Startup Journalist of the year in Iceland
The Startup Journalist of The Year on Iceland is @BalaInIceland from @startupiceland ! CONGRATULATIONS! — NordicStartupAwards (@NSawards) May 18, 2014 …
Getting to Yes
I was reminded yesterday of a blog post that I wrote a while back about True Grit, the persistent, relentless …
Leadership and Courage
As I wrote in my previous blog post, I have been glued to the book “The Hard Thing about Hard …
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 …
Disruption in how we learn
I always enjoyed being a student and that is one of the main reasons why I wanted to teach… that …
Culture of Failure
I had a very interesting discussion during the UnConference Event, where one of the participants was telling me how she …
Excuse department is closed
As I have mentioned before, guest posts are welcome on the Startup Iceland Blog. We did our first post about …
Why you should be optimistic about the future
When I started on the Venture Capital education 4 years back, I started following Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and Mark …
Strategies to implement Validated Learning
The meetup yesterday on the Lean Startup was very inspiring, so I am following up the post with some more …
Valuation of a startup – the holy grail?
I have been getting a lot of questions related to How does one value Startups. The best reference for valuation …