The Art of Slowing Down to Speed Up
How often do you as a leader take time off? Not as in “watch Netflix for one night” or even …
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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 …
6 Reasons to Join Ultrahack 2015
Ultrahack is part of Europe’s biggest hackathon leading up to the annual Slush conference. You can join with your pre-existing …
Founders Institute 1st Meetup Update
It was great to see around 35 people who registered and showed up for the meetup. We had two great …
Launching Founders Institute Reykjavik this September
I am happy to announce that we have had our official hand off and go ahead to launch the Exploratory …
Founder Institute – Reykjavik Chapter
This fall we are kicking into high gear with Startup Iceland initiatives, I applied to lead the local chapter of …
Öryggisventill – An Icelandic Open Source Project that gives Power to the People
It has been a while since I posted, almost 2 weeks I took some time to think and ponder and …
Intrapreneurship in Iceland – the story of Tempo
I believe startup thinking or entrepreneurial mindset is not limited to startups and entrepreneurs. I think anyone in any job …
Why I love Twitter
Started writing this post before I left Iceland for Boston to run the Boston Marathon did not get time to …
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 …
Startup Energy Reykjavik
Iceland has one of the best infrastructures period. I don’t have concrete data to back up that claim, but I …
Building Startup Communities
Every city was once a startup, famous words spoken by Brad Feld when I have seen him position his book …
Iceland is Starting up
It is exciting to see the developments in Iceland as it relates to Entrepreneurship and Startups. There has been a …
Startup Reykjavik 2013
Startup Reykjavik the mentorship driven accelerator for Startups organized by Arion Bank and Innovit+Klak announced the new batch of companies …
SI2013 – Big Shout Out to our Sponsors
It has been crazy and everything seems like a buzz, but I know Startup Iceland 2013 would not be possible …
Mayor of Reykjavik City, Free WiFi in Reykjavik and Bingo Bar!
Met Jon Gnarr, the Mayor of Reykjavik. I have to say he was generous, attentive and really wanted to help …
Iceland Seafood Cluster
I have been writing a lot about Entrepreneurship and Startups, but I am not a big fan of the Cluster …
Startup Reykjavik 2013
I started on this journey to build a Startup Community in Iceland right after the Financial Collapse of 2008. What …
Startup Weekend Reykjavik
Startup Weekend Reykjavik happend this last weekend. I volunteered again as a mentor and it was a lot of fun. …
Where do great ideas come from?
I am the first one to reject the notion that Ideas don’t matter, but to a certain degree they do. …