article thumbnail

Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear. In recent months, Silicon Valley has featured quite a bit in the news, as some high-profile household tech companies have been laying off droves of employees.

article thumbnail

How World-Class Mountain Guides Inspire Young Business Leaders

YoungUpstarts

Now many of these 200 participants are fully engaged in careers on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, and in nonprofits, and the stories they tell highlight six key leadership strengths of their guides. He needed to garner their trust quickly.

Iceland 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

An Untitled Post About Having Money, Not Having Money and The Number

Hunter Walker

A week ago if you mentioned that figure in Silicon Valley without context you might get a variety of responses. ” [Nope, that was $33 billion, at least last November] “Iceland’s GDP?” “Is that the public market cap of LinkedIn?”

Iceland 116
article thumbnail

Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. From automatic street light dimming in Reykjavik, Iceland, for viewing the northern lights to needs like flood prevention and air quality reporting and advising, technology can make a big impact.

article thumbnail

I Just Watched “The Startup Kids” Documentary

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It’s an hour long movie created by two woman from iceland, Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir , who came to America to interview people about life as a young entrepreneur working on a tech startup. Tweet Last night I was at the Sunshine Coast premier of the documentary The Startup Kids.

Iceland 83
article thumbnail

Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company.