Börkur Sigurbjörnsson is a data and information scientist, working freelance as a data storyteller, an applied scientist, and a consultant for early stage startups.
Börkur helps startups sharpen their value proposition and explore product-market-fit through iterative prototypes and minimum viable products used to validate business hypotheses.
Clarifying the core business idea or intuition and formulating it as a value proposition in the form of products and/or services.
Identification and validation of key business model hypotheses underlying the value proposition.
Overview of the competitive landscape to discover companies solving similar problems and identify distinguishing factors.
Narration of the business model as investment pitch decks and grant applications.
Overview of the technological development needed to turn the idea into a product or a service.
Breaking complex systems into clearly specified components that can be prioritized into a product roadmap and milestones.
Agile management of teams through clear alignment of priorities and work deliverables.
Iterative prototype and MVP development in order to rapidly validate the main underlying business hypotheses.
Back-end data processing services, data pipelines and API development.
Applied science in the fields of artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing.