Jud Valeski – Speaker Profile – SI2016
Wow, less than a week until Startup Iceland 2016. Another speaker and mentor announcement that I am excited about. Jud Valeski …
2015 – A New Hope
It has been rather quiet holidays for me and my family with the usual great food, over eating and crazy …
User Interviews a.k.a Product Validation
I think it is important to start with big vision, but have the courage to narrow the problem down to …
Contrarian Thinking
I was one of the first investors to invest in Iceland right after the financial collapse of 2008. That does …
Founders Dilemma – A Book Review
I have been listening to “Founder’s Dilemma – Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup” by Noam …
Disrupting Disruption
If you have not read the article by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker titled “The Disruption Machine – What …
Bitcoins and Iceland
I had a Twitter debate and discussion with Chris Dixon about Bitcoins in Iceland. I have to say I was …
Why the publishing industry is broken – John Biggs – Startup Iceland 2014
John is funny and says it as he sees it. Here is a story of John working on a book …
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 …
Tulipop Founders – Signy and Helga – Speaker Profile – Startup Iceland 2014
Startup Iceland is almost here, if you have not booked your tickets please do it. We have a great line …
Net Neutrality, Startup Communities and Permissionless Innovation
If you have not noticed what is happening to Net Neutrality and the FCC’s vote on May 15th you really …
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 …
Why I love Twitter
Started writing this post before I left Iceland for Boston to run the Boston Marathon did not get time to …
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 …
3 reasons why you should attend Startup Iceland
I have been debating this internally, I would really like your feedback on this. Do you feel that there is …
What the Hack?
In case you have been under the rock or not been following this blog, we are having our Annual Startup …
SI2013 – Speaker Profile – Damon Berger and Shira Lazar
We are mixing it up this year in Startup Iceland… digital media meets startups meet digital marketing, no-one better than …
Traction brings money; Money does not bring traction
I was at the Seed Forum this year, but I could not participate for the whole day but I attended …
Promise of Big Data and whats wrong with it
I like Data as much as the next guy, but I am troubled by all the empty promises of big …
Startup Risk
I usually get really worked up when I am speaking with some employees in a bank about Startups and Entrepreneurship, …