FutureCast #8: The Composting Company
In this episode of the FutureCast, Bala talks to Björk Brynjarsdóttir and Julian Brenner from the Composting Company (Icelandic: Jarðgerðarfélagið). …
Venture capital
Iceland Currency Controls Liberalised
Icelandic parliament approves unanimously to liberalise currency controls that were put in place after the 2008 financial collapse.
Investing in Trust
I think Jerry Colonna is awesome and of course I don’t have to say anything about Fred Wilson. I see …
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 …
It never rains but it pours – Another $40 million for growth stage Startups in Iceland
Yes, you heard me. Frumtak closed their Frumtak II fund (In Icelandic) and they will be investing in growth stage startups. …
Teach; to be great at whatever you do
I have seen enough bashing of the education system and schools that I want to write about it. I had …
Why is power law difficult to understand
I believe that we live in the world of Power Law, I have written about it before. I even wrote …
Winter is coming
I would be remiss to not write about Profligacy and Complacency given the warning signs coming from the likes of …
Startup Reykjavik – Investor Day 2014
Really impressed with the teams of 2014 batch of Startup Reykjavik. There were interesting companies, from making Protein Bars from Insects …
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 …
Rework – Book Reveiw
I finished listening to ReWork, the book written by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson the founders of 37Signals. A software …
Investing in people and teams
I have been meeting a lot of people about my new project, the feedback has been extremely positive. What is …
Sustaining vs Disruptive Innovation
I have been listening to Clay Christensen and Michael E. Raynor‘s book “The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth“. …
Getting to Yes
I was reminded yesterday of a blog post that I wrote a while back about True Grit, the persistent, relentless …
Best of times to be an Entrepreneur and Venture Investor
I cannot emphasize enough the exciting opportunities that are in front of us. In case you have not noticed, Andreessen …
Two key deficits of the founder CEO…
… when compared with a professional CEO”. I had to complete the sentence because some of the founder CEO’s go …
Investing in Startups
I had no idea what to do when I first decided that I wanted to invest in Entrepreneurship and Startups. …
Are we the horse?
This is a talk given by Albert Wenger one of the partners in Union Square Ventures and Fred Wilson shared this. …
Focus
While you transition your company from being a idea to a startup to a small company to a big …
QuizUp
Icelandic Startup Plain Vanilla Games launched their new game Quiz Up and it has been getting a lot of attention …