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Culture of Failure
Image via CrunchBase I had a very interesting discussion during the UnConference Event, where one of the participants was telling me how she feared how the community would react if her business failed...
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Tolerance, Inclusion and Prosperity
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I had a bit of a disagreement with Fred Wilson, who is one of my virtual mentors through his blog avc.com. But I think Fred is wrong on this argument. I stand by what Fred...
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Wealth or Value is not created through Debt
The expansion of $100 through fractional-reserve banking with varying reserve requirements. Each curve approaches a limit. This limit is the value that the money multiplier calculates. (Photo credit:...
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Are you Antifragile?
Have I mentioned to you that Nicholas Nassim Taleb was the man responsible for me to jump into the world of Entrepreneurship and Startups? well, he did. He is by far the most brilliant mind and...
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What kills you makes the ecosystem stronger
I have been having so much fun watching Nicholas Nassim Taleb talk about Antifragility. Source: Wikipedia, Hitrecord.org Did I mention that I am big fan of his work? It is just brilliant the way he has...
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Startup Renaissance
Reykjavik (Photo credit: natematias) I was invited to give a talk on Career Day in Reykjavik University. I wanted to drive home a message that Entrepreneurship is a viable career alternative. I led...
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Depression
There has been a lot of posts in the blog sphere about depression and the recent suicide of Aaron Swartz and. Brad Feld wrote about his struggle with this in “Are Entrepreneurs more prone to...
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Disruption revisited and redefined
The word Disruption has a negative context, the definition according to Dictionary.com is 1. ( tr ) to throw into turmoil or disorder 2. ( tr ) to interrupt the progress of (a movement, meeting, etc)...
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Coding
My daughter hacking I have been hammering the notion of Software development for as long as I can remember. I took up Computer Science when I was 14, it was just fun to do but I was never that good in...
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Startup Risk
Cover via Amazon I usually get really worked up when I am speaking with some employees in a bank about Startups and Entrepreneurship, they immediately say that it is Risky. I always ask them could they...
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High Risk, Low Data Decision
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I have been reading the book “Crossing the Chasm” by Geoffrey A. Moore again. I highly recommend the book to anyone in a disruptive business. The book is an easy read and...
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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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Overestimate 3 years and Underestimate 10 years
We are not very good at estimates or forecasts, which I have consistently written about we make educated guesses… I say educated with a pitch of salt because we don’t know what we don’t know and what...
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Economics Shimeconomics
Iceland: Viking Rune (Photo credit: vicmontol) The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to...
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Software Patents – New Zealand takes the lead
New Zealand 1 Source: Forbes Patent Trolls 0 In the world of bits and bytes, the above score means a lot. If you have been following my chain of thought, I believe...
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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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SI2013 – Speaker Profile – Angela Jackson
Angela Jackson We are keeping with the theme of Angel investors following yesterday’s post about John Sechrest. I got connected to Angela Jackson through Helga Waage of Mobilitus, a startup from...
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Analysis Paralysis
The cereal box sold by Team AirBnB to raise money to fund the company You can really pass on a great deal based on how you think. Here is a great post by Fred Wilson with the title “You can do too much...
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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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Startup Management – Masterfully Curated Resources for every startup
Fred Wilson wrote about an AVC regular William Mougayar is building an education oriented community for entrepreneurs called Startup Management (SUM). I wanted to bring attention to this aspect of a...
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