Tools of the future – AI in Business
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way businesses operate across the world. With advancements in technology and an increasing number …
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The Power of Networking: How Conferences Can Benefit Your Startup
Starting a new business can be a daunting task, and every entrepreneur needs support, guidance, and inspiration to succeed. One …
Trust Your People to Play
In today’s blogpost, I am sharing some takeaways from my conversation with Joachim Samuelsson, the CEO of Сrunchfish, a Sweden-based …
Genius Leadership in Practice at GRID
I have recently interviewed Hjalmar Gislason, the founder of Reykjavík-based GRID, about his journey as a leader. It was insightful …
FutureCast – How to build the future
Futurecast is a new videocast/podcast about how to build the future from Iceland. The first guest is Kevin Laws, CEO of Angellist. We talk about angel investing, Naval Ravikanth’s superpower, what should founders from Iceland focus.
A different kind of Startup accelerator
“Slow down to start up” is the philosophy of a program for entrepreneurs in the Westfjords of Iceland, where mentorship and adventure mix and ideas have a place to grow.
The Network, A.I and Entrepreneurship
Just finished reading The New Yorker article “The Network Man” about Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn. I have written …
How to Start a Startup – Lecture 1
As I mentioned before I am teaching a class in Reykjavik University. The first lecture was last Wednesday and there …
#YouCanLearnAnything
This blog is motivated by an article that I read written by Sal Khan of Khan Academy. The summary of …
Winds of Change in Iceland?
I spent the last friday and saturday in Reykjavik University, participating in an event organized by SI – The Federation of …
Hubris and Learning
Hubris according to Merriam Webster is a great or foolish amount of pride or confidence. I meet and talk to …
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 …
Startup Iceland Mini Events
As a build up to Startup Iceland at the end of this month, WEDO one of our sponsors and partners …
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 …
Startup Genome and Startup Event Calendar – Iceland
The mission of this blog is to be a resource for entrepreneurs, startups and everyone who wants to learn about …
Track Record, Trust and Leadership
I have more or less documented the journey since the day the Financial System in Iceland collapsed in 2008. There …
Building Startup Communities
Every city was once a startup, famous words spoken by Brad Feld when I have seen him position his book …
Dedication to the Truth
Truth is reality. Reality can be distorted when we have wrong maps in front of us. To be part of …
Why build a Startup Community?
I started on this long term view that Iceland can be a fantastic place to create a Startup Community, some of …
What does it mean to Execute?
I was very impressed with the blog post by Ben Kaufman titled “What Raising Money Means to Me“. I believe personal …