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Startup Reykjavik – Investor Day
Today we have a guest post by Kristján Kristjánsson, one of the organizers of Startup Reykjavik and CEO of Innovit. I am going to the Investor day in Startup Reykjavik, if you know of an Angel investor...
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Startup Reykjavik 2012 – Done!
I was so pleased to see the participation of the investor community in the Investor Day of Startup Reykjavik 2012. It was a fantastic pitch day, all the teams did a great job… it showed how well they...
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Whats Next – Start Selling
We have a guest post again by Ashwin Bhambri on what the next things the teams should focus on now that Startup Reykjavik is over. I think he has good points and strategies on moving again. It is hard...
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Liad Agmon – Talk @GreenQloud
Liad Agmon from Bessemer Venture Partners stopped at GreenQloud and gave a talk about his entrepreneurial career, stories and lessons learnt. It was very entertaining, insightful and inspiring. I think...
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Guest Post: Ragnar Fjölnisson Founder of DataTracker.io
We have a guest post from Ragnar Fjölnisson, the founder of Datatracker. Datatracker helps business professionals gather disperse online data and convert it into a structured dataset which then can be...
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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 my friends tell me that I Image Source: Bloomberg TV got desperate because I got fired from...
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2013 – A New Beginning
Picture taken in Reykjavik by me 2012 was eventful. The Startup Community in Iceland is starting to thrive, we are seeing green shoots everywhere. More optimism, courage and eagerness to start and...
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Organizing Angel Capital
As we are starting the preparation for Startup Iceland 2013 (have you signed up and marked your calendar yet?), one of the elements of building startup ecosystem is to bring more investors into venture...
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Accelerator for Investors
I have been thinking a lot about how to get new breed of investors into the fold of supporting the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. I think it would be great to have a mentorship driven accelerator just like...
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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. Usually a problem drives one to think about how to solve the problem. I actually like this video that...
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Startup Weekend Reykjavik
Startup Weekend Reykjavik happend this last weekend. I volunteered again as a mentor and it was a lot of fun. Source: iceland.startupweekend.org This time around the organizing team at Innovit had...
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Startup Reykjavik 2013
Image via CrunchBase I started on this journey to build a Startup Community in Iceland right after the Financial Collapse of 2008. What is needed when you need to create a lot of startups is an...
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Iceland Seafood Cluster
I have been writing a lot about Entrepreneurship and Startups, but I am not a big fan of the Cluster concept primarily because getting established companies to be Entrepreneurial is very hard because...
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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 with Startup Iceland Conference… we will have to wait and see what that would be. I think the...
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SI2013 – Big Shout Out to our Sponsors
Click on the picture for a larger image It has been crazy and everything seems like a buzz, but I know Startup Iceland 2013 would not be possible without the support of our wonderful sponsors....
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Startup Reykjavik 2013
Source: GreenQloud Share Startup Reykjavik the mentorship driven accelerator for Startups organized by Arion Bank and Innovit+Klak announced the new batch of companies in Startup Iceland. Last evening,...
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Iceland is Starting up
It is exciting to see the developments in Iceland as it relates to Entrepreneurship and Startups. There has been a number of developments right after Startup Iceland 2013 that I think are watershed...
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Building Startup Communities
Every city was once a startup, famous words spoken by Brad Feld when I have seen him position his book on Startup Communities. Where is the soul of the city, what makes cities thrive and fall? I think...
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Startup Energy Reykjavik
Iceland has one of the best infrastructures period. I don’t have concrete data to back up that claim, but I have almost no memory of a power cut or roads not being clean or no hot or cold water in the...
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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 for the past 7 years if you did not know. I have also been the President, Secretary and...
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