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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. A Vitaclean is a shower head with three levels of filtration for instant soft hair and skin. Their Backstory. ” (Sara). Embracing Social Goals.

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How World-Class Mountain Guides Inspire Young Business Leaders

YoungUpstarts

Christian Hoogerheyde, now a project manager at Socrata, a cloud-based data platform, reached the summit of the highest peak in Iceland with his guide-led team. John Sims, a partner and CFO at Snowden Lane who climbed with a guided team, says, “If you don’t trust the person who has you on belay, you are not going to get very far.

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

The Startup Toolkit

A related problem we hit is partnering with other companies (which is important for us). 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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Episode 39: Cash Flow and Niche Focusing with David Knowles and Kacee Johnson

Mike Michalowicz

Before joining Creditsafe, he led the brand strategy for a number of international beer and cider brands in Europe, such as Aspall, Steinlager, Toohey’s, and Iceland’s leading brewer, Vifilfell. Corporate Partners. A graduate of the University of Wales, Knowles lives and works in Cardiff, Wales, from Creditsafe’s U.K.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I then partnered with other PR firms in the US to assist and grow their client base and in turn, grew mine as well. Having clients in America, Iceland, Denmark, Swiss and other European countries is very interesting & educative for me. I started off with 8 clients and it quickly grew to 30 in one year. 19- From a dream.

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Megaupload and the Future of Multi-tenant Services

Feld Thoughts

This is a draft post by Dave Jilk, a long time friend, business partner, and CEO of Standing Cloud. While I was in Iceland a few weeks ago, there was a set of discussions driven by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures about trying to make Iceland and “Internet Neutrality Zone” similar to Switzerland and banking.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

US drug powerhouse Pfizer and Iceland-based Actavis were among the bidders in the final round, but Teva beat their offers. Brazil is Israel’s largest trade partner in Latin America. The deal is expected to capture significant synergies for Teva.

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