“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” For the last few years I have put a lot of effort into creating goals for the upcoming year. Every year I have started sooner and sooner to have enough time to create the ideal goals for me. This year I am beginning a month before [...]
As a person that goes to many startup events I end up collecting hundreds of business cards from all kinds of businesses. Soon all the business cards start to seem the same and I think it can be difficult for people to differentiate their cards from all the others. So on the few occasions that [...]
I am always amazed when I meet successful people from all over the world that almost without exception they have one thing in common, they are all really good people. I remember when I was first starting of in business I thought you had to be really tough person that doesn’t take no shit from [...]
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I, like so many of you, want to become successful but what does it really mean to become successful and can you use the word in a general and/or entirety context? Or can it perhaps only be used in context with a single endeavor. Society teaches us that success can be found in a good [...]
I have only been in Austin Texas for about 12 hours and I wasn’t going to write anything about it until I had spent some more time here but I felt like I should tell you about what I had experienced so far. It has to be one of my favorite cities so far as [...]
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Visiting New York City is a great way to get inspired and motivated to continue working on your goals. Staying in the city completely redefined my sense of scale, specially since I come from a small city like Reykjavik. There are about 8,4 million people living in New York versus just about 160 thousand in [...]
I have talked a lot about the importance of networking over the years and even wrote a post about it called networking online. However my understanding of this phenomenon has changed in the past few years and I now realize that I completely misunderstood it in the beginning. Or at least I like my current [...]
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A year ago I signed up for the Icelandic Rescue team, a decision that ended up being one of the better ones I have made in later years. The rescue team is a large group of volunteers that have the mission of helping people in dangerous and difficult situations often where the police, paramedics and [...]
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Having followed the startup ecosystem in Iceland closely over the past few years I have gotten a good overview of the changes that have occured. When I first started following it, it was almost non existing but during the past 5 years it has grown and has now become a very active society of entrepreneurs. [...]
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Tim Ferris wrote an interesting book called the “four hour work week“, the book became very popular and it was well deserved as this is a great book. The book however reflects the lazy mindset that the majority of people seem to have in the Western world. Everyone wants to be rich but few are [...]
I absolutely love books, even though I am slow reader and hardly ever give myself time to read. But those few times where I am actually able to read a good book are fantastic. Books used properly, change lifes. So here are 2 books that influenced my life in a big way. 1. Real Estate Riches [...]
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A few years ago I was like so many other young men experimenting with different ways of making money and working independently. I tried a lot of different things such as buying and selling cars, Internet businesses, stocks, franchises, buying stuff in bulk and selling at my local flea market, real estate, service companies and [...]
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In business it is important to be philosophical and think about why your in business and what you want to get out of it. Business isn’t just about making money, for most founders there is a much deeper reason for why they do what they do. Some of us have the need to create, others [...]
This Friday Startup Reykjavik has their Investor day. The 10 teams having spent the last 3 months working hard on preparing there business ideas to be introduced to investors will finally get there change with the investors. If you have any interest in investing in innovation in Iceland you should definitely look into this event. [...]
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I just finished wathcing a youtube video entitled “A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self”. In the video the filmmaker takes an old video of himself when he was 12 years old and mixes it with video of himself 20 years later. The outcome is a very funny and interesting conversation between the same [...]
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Startup Reykjavik is the name of Iceland’s first startup accelerator. This is in my opinion a very big step for the icelandic startup environment and two weeks into the project everything seems to be going very well. The process is simple, 10 business teams are chosen to take part in this 10 week project and in [...]
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I sometime feel like there might be something wrong with me because I have this extreme drive to succeed in life. This feeling has lived within my soul for as long as I can remember, I feel like I have to become successful and that it is my mission in life to do something positive [...]
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I just love how much of a nerd I can be sometimes. A few months back I connected the sales on my website with my cell phone so that every time I make a sale on my website I get a SMS informing me of it. I think it is very important to always know [...]
I think one of the most important things for a person to do in this life is realize who they really are and what they want to get out of this life. The only way to experience true happiness in life is by knowing what you want. But it is not easy to find yourself [...]
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My company is specialized in assisting families to rent out their summerhouses to both local and foreign travelers, we have so far only been working with renting out Icelandic summerhouses. That has been very succesful and we are now working on expanding and opening up a new website abroad. It will most likely be a few months [...]
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photo by Antoine Millet I have two books on my nightstand, The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss and The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco. I am in the process of reading them both and I can highly recommend both of them as they have so far had a very big impact on me. Both [...]
I just wanted to share with you a few of the TEDx lectures from the TED event that was held in Reykjavik at the end of last year. You can also find all of the lectures from TEDx Reykjavik here http://tedxtalks.ted.com/browse/talks-by-country/iceland.
For the past 6 or 7 years I have always used the last 2 days of each year to write down 10 goals for the upcoming year. This has become a tradition that I enjoy very much since it gives my a clear path to follow in the new year. It is my experience that [...]
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Two days ago I got a an epiphany. I have always been working towards the goal of creating a successful company and a successful company in my eyes was something that had a large office with hundreds of employees, investors begging to invest, massive amounts of money, thousands of customers and all the extravagances that [...]
For the past three weeks I have been working on putting together one of the most interesting conference in Iceland so far (in my opinion). I have tried using all my free time, that really isn’t very much, mainly in the evenings and over the weekends. I have gotten together some of the most interesting [...]
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Recently I have had many discussions about how to create an environment that motivates young people to start up there own companies and create value for themselves and their community. Many ideas have been thrown out there during those discussions and the one that I think is most interesting and perhaps could actually make the [...]
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Last Monday, Gunnar Holmsteinn from CLARA posted a new event on Facebook, he said: “I know this has a very short notice, but any tech entrepreneurs in Iceland are welcome to join us at CLARA and meet the Techcrunch people stuck here”. And it was indeed short notice since he posted this less then 2 [...]
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I have mentioned before how extreme the business environment has been in Iceland over the past few years, but business isn’t the only thing that is extreme in Iceland. Yesterday a volcanic eruption started in Grímsvötn in the southern part of Iceland, only a year after the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull made the world news for [...]
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Over the years I have assisted hundreds of individuals start up their own business and in almost all of those cases the individuals faced the same obstacle. The same seems also to be true of everybody that is starting up his or her first business regardless of age, sex and nationality. The obstacle that I [...]
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On the front cover of today’s edition of the Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið there is an article about the problem that Icelandic companies are facing. In the article it is stated that of the 6.000 small and medium sized companies in Iceland 1.500 will most surely go bankrupt without some actions from the Icelandic government and [...]
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