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 far as startups and entrepreneurs...

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...

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...

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,...

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, they must also be aware of ...

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...

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...

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 to...

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 when society is always pushing you...

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 successful and we are now working on expanding and opening up a new website...

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 of these books suggest...

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...