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And the Winner of Startup Weekend Akureyri is…
Drum roll… Entrepreneurship! Yes, the winner over the weekend is the concept of Entrepreneurship. It was exciting to see over 100 people working on a problem, listening to feedback and presenting their...
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Innovation Clusters – Why they don’t work
Here is an interesting article about “How to make a region innovative” by Strategy+Business portal of Booz & Company. Why am I writing about this? well, because there is all this talk about...
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DataMarket – A Startup Profile
DataMarket.com is a startup out of Iceland. I have met with Hjalli a couple of times, spoken to him quite a bit and used DataMarket services on some of the presentations and have been following the...
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SXSW update – 8th Lean Startup Meetup
Cover of Minority ReportKristjan Freyr Kristjansson was at SXSW2012 and he gave a brief talk about the show and more importantly shared his thoughts on attending many of the Lean Startup Panel. The...
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Golden Egg, Seed Forum, Startup Iceland… a lot happening
The last couple of weeks have been incredible to watch, I truly believe Spring is in the air. First of The Golden Egg Competition was conducted and the winner were announced. Second, Seed Forum has...
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Entrepreneurship in Reykjavik University
Image via CrunchBase I have agreed to participate as a Mentor for the Entrepreneurship 3 week course with the title “Startups and New Ventures” for the new incoming students in Reykjavik University. It...
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Open Source Entrepreneurship
Logo Open Source Initiative (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Steve Blank has been one of the bloggers, Entrepreneurs and Gurus who has been writing about and teaching entrepreneurship in Stanford and a number...
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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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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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SI2013 – Speaker Profile – John Sechrest
I got connected to John through Kristjan Freyr Kristjanson, CEO of Innovit+Klak and who runs Startup Weekend in Iceland. I had always felt that what we lacked in Iceland was broader participation of...
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