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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

A Tourist Destination These capitals are more than top tourist destinations , and while it wasn’t possible to include nearly as many of the best places there are for startups; from scenic Iceland that brought us Alvotech, Contralant, and CCP Games.

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Female Founders: Two Women Disrupt Shower Head Industry

The Startup Magazine

Sara (Australian and Icelandic) and Kristina (Bulgarian) met while working for fashion content powerhouse INDIGITAL GROUP in London when the concept of Vitaclean was born. After scouring the internet researching water softening systems, they came to the conclusion that most were expensive, hard to install and cumbersome.

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Twitter Link Roundup #142 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

A Happier Workplace: 4 Tips From Iceland – [link]. Why It’s Good that the Internet Is Changing Our Brains – [link]. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre Entrepreneurs – [link]. Startup Traction Mistakes – [link]. When Freemium Fails – [link]. How Instagram Could Have Cut a Better Deal – [link].

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Five Drivers of Real Opportunity for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The BP oil spill in the Gulf, the volcanic eruption in Iceland, and recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in pollution control, just-in-time manufacturing, and building materials. I’m looking for things like the next Internet, cold fusion, or a technology to cure cancer.

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Two years of remote working – hiring, scaling, culture, and the lifestyle trade-off

The Startup Toolkit

For example, we’ve set up our comms so we can be away from internet for a week or more without negative effects. Even if we could fix all our internal issues, we still need to flex toward the our partners’ ways of working. But the companies we partner with probably aren’t in the same situation.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

For this blog, Benchmarking classifies me into Internet & Telecom vertical. Finally, just to bring this whole thing home properly… I focus on the country of Iceland because… well, why not… and in a few seconds I have my report… We are crushing it in Iceland! Very confidence building.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This was borne out of my personal frustrations in scouring the internet and needing to stitch together my own half-baked solutions. Having clients in America, Iceland, Denmark, Swiss and other European countries is very interesting & educative for me. Thanks to Kristin Thorisdottir, Mindtherapy.dk ! #19- 19- From a dream.