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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For Icelandic entrepreneurs the economic crisis of 2008 was like a kick in the balls. The only difference was that if it had actually been a kick in the balls it would only have lasted a few minutes while they rolled on the ground in pain. Even now, three years later, many entrepreneurs are still [...]
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