Listen to this week’s episode and discover the story behind how Bala Kamallakharan went from being a marketing consultant in the US to becoming a serial-investor and growing the Startup foundation for Icelandic Entrepreneurs.

Bala now has a lot of experience in investing in startup companies, growing them to becoming a huge success and selling the company to bigger investors.

Bala went from a management consultant in the US to creating Startup Iceland, a leading conference on moving your business from an idea to a success.

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• How an unexpected event in Bala’s life forced him to make a big life choice for him and his family
  
• What happened inside Glitnir in the banking crisis of 2008
  
• How to become a VC founder without knowing what a VC is
  
• How an open letter to a big VC investor took Bala from not knowing anything about investing to a leading expert in the field of investing
  
• What new VC funds are opening in Iceland
  

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• Bala Kamallakharan
  
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  • Connect with Bala on LinkedIn
    
  • Say Thanks to Bala on Twitter
    
  • Add Bala to your Google+ circle
    
  
  
  
• Siggy Gudbrandsson (Sigurður Guðbrandsson)
  

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• An open letter to Brad Feld
  
• Startup Iceland
  
• Startup Reykjavik
  
• Founder Institute – Reykjavik Chapter
  
• Boomerang – a book with a unique view on the 2008 financial crisis by Michael Lewis
  

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