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The Memo

The Memo: Analysing the Funding Report

I’ll start of by apologizing for the lack of Memo’s in the last two weeks! I was away in the north west of Iceland, with no access to internet. We held our first book club last week. It was pretty good — I’ll post a key take-aways post

The Memo: Comments from an Angel and thoughts about Startup Iceland

Another week, another Memo. First, a couple of announcements. We have a new team member at Norðurskautið. Her name is Guðbjörg Rist, an engineer from Chalmers, and she will be leading our efforts into research and reporting. If you’re interested in reports or research about the Icelandic startup scene,

The Memo: The Innovation Bill

I didn’t send out a Memo last Monday. I attended Startup Iceland and didn’t have time to write one. Sorry about that. Also, I’ll be doing two this week, so expect another one on Wednesday or Thursday. On to the Memo. Althingi passed the Innovation Bill last

The Memo: NSA Ventures' Annual Meeting

Correction: In an earlier version I wrongly quoted Almar as having said “We hope that preparation and establishment of a new fund will finalize in the next weeks.” The words and establishment shouldn’t have been there, Almar didn’t suggest they were on the verge of starting a new

The Memo: Iceland might be running into a VC problem, part 2

Good morning everyone – hope you had a great, long weekend. This memo is going out on a Tuesday because we want you to start the workweek with a Memo 🙂 A couple of Memo’s back, I promised to revisit my prediction about Iceland’s VC troubles. I’ve had time

The Memo: The Airbnb bill – Good or Bad?

Another week, another Memo. Yesterday, Iceland’s former Prime Minister, Davíð Oddsson, announced his candidacy for the presidency. He was also the Mayor of Reykjavik and Chair of the Central Bank. Nothing much to add, except my favorite pundit theory. The theory says that Davíð is running for president to

The Memo: Black Friday & last week's earnings season

Last week was an interesting roller coaster of tech news. Tech earnings calls dominated the news cycle. Most of the big companies underperformed, while Facebook hit a home run. Iceland also had several earnings calls. Norðurskautið uncovered that Nýherji’s CEO Finnur Oddsson used the opportunity to take a jab