Permission less Innovation
We need a place where we can innovate without permission. Legislation and regulation is needed but we also need to experiment to face the challenges of the future
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Sherwood Neiss – Startup Iceland 2014 – Speaker Profile
I am really happy to start the series on the Profile of Speakers lineup that we have for Startup Iceland …
Price is what you pay, Value is what you get
This blog post inspired by the article written by Warren Buffett in the Fortune Magazine, it is an excerpt from …
Startup Boards – A Book Review – First Peek
I have been reading the new book from Brad Feld and Mahendra Ramsinghani titled “Startup Board – Getting the most …
Innovation House one more bridge from Iceland
I attended the official opening of the Innovation House the initiative of Jon Von Tetzchner. I was excited and energized …
On the road of building Startup Communities in Iceland
Brad Feld interviewing Jim Collins, two of my favorite business thought leaders and authors talking about a topic that I …
Team Engagement and Leadership
I have been on the road for the past 2 weeks related to my role as CEO of GreenQloud. We …
Building Bridges from Iceland for Entrepreneurs
I am a big believer that in order to really bring strength to the Startup Community in Iceland we need …
Patterns and Fallacies
I read a post by Om Malik, the founder of GigaOm with the title “Patterns and Fallacies: Why they have …
True Grit
Picking a team to bet on is a tough one. I don’t believe ideas really matter, if you have one …
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 …
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 …
Bootstrapping vs Raising capital
I had planned to do a meetup this week and discuss the above topic. Never got around to it, but …
Why Startups Create more Jobs than big companies
The malaise that we have started to notice in the world around of the protracted recovery from the 2008 financial …
StartupVille
I am a big fan of the Kaufmann Sketch series and this is the latest one about building Startup Ecosystems. …
Tolerance, Inclusion and Prosperity
I had a bit of a disagreement with Fred Wilson, who is one of my virtual mentors through his blog …
Liad Agmon – Talk @GreenQloud
Liad Agmon from Bessemer Venture Partners stopped at GreenQloud and gave a talk about his entrepreneurial career, stories and lessons …
The Network is the Force – May the Force be with you
I have written about how Iceland could be the world’s first Internet Enterprise Zone. It is not a pipe dream of …
Building bridges and entrepreneurship
Luis E. Arreaga from Innovation Center Iceland on Vimeo. Ambassador Luis E. Arreage introducing Brad Feld and Brad Burnham and …
Third Wave of Innovation
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson from Innovation Center Iceland on Vimeo. We are slowing starting to get the videos out from Startup …