During this summer im focusing all of my energy managing StartupReykjavik a seed stage accelerator program. In the program we have built a 10 week program, where teams get an amazing facility, access to great perks, $16k and access to the countries top mentors.

During the first three weeks we put intense focus on getting as many mentors into the program as possible, so the teams can get different perspectives and decide early on before prototyping if they should pivot or persevere.

We were literally up all night every day during the first week until 22:00 and showing up early in the morning at 08:00 every day. We have had about ~40 mentors into the program in 12 days, the teams have done 30 second pitches, 60 second pitches, 5 minute pitches with slides, 5 minute pitches about their business model, pitch the other teams, pitch on the spot before mentors, listened to other startup startup stories, had investors come in for talks etc.

I feel we are off to an even better start than last year which felt like a once in a lifetime experience.

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