Entries by BootstrapLabs

Oracle Inspiration Tour 2015: a morning with BootstrapLabs

As part of Oracle OpenWorld 2015 this week, Oracle France organized a 5 day “inspiration” tour of San Francisco/Silicon Valley for about 30 French corporate executives. After visiting some of our friends at LinkedIn, Lending Club, and Uber, the group spent Tuesday morning with BootstrapLabs at our San Francisco offices. Settled in with coffee and pastries, the […]

BootstrapLabs at Innovation Skåne – Advice for Swedish entrepreneurs

Lund, Sweden | Wednesday 21 October 2015 In a room full of entrepreneurs, BootstrapLabs founder Nicolai Wadström shared his thoughts on Silicon Valley unicorns, and the speculation of tech bubbles and overvalued startups. He reminded his audience to focus on value, and the fundamentals of the companies being touted as Unicorns.

Event with Connect Angel Network in Malmo at Minc: Unicorn Factory/Leveraging Silicon Valley

Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder and CEO of BootstrapLabs will share with Swedish entrepreneurs, local angels and the Connect Angel Network and Minc community his journey with BootstrapLabs. Attendees will also receive valuable insights and learn how companies like Prezi scale from a small office in Budapest to a 300+ people company in Silicon Valley. A guaranteed dose of inspiration will […]

BootstrapLabs Holiday Cheers!

Dear Bootstrappers, It has been a terrific  year for BootstrapLabs and no doubt 2015 will be even greater! The quality of our deal-flow is incredible and we are privileged to be in a position to invest in, and work side-by-side with, some of the best entrepreneurs the world has to offer. Prezi’s latest round of […]

Ben Speaks @ East Meets West Conference – Hawaii Nov 5-7, 2014

How hard can it be for us to convince you…it’s in Hawaii people! Come attend this great event where US, Japanese, Korean and Chinese startups will meet global minded investors and battle it out to penetrate each others’ market. Ben Levy, co-founder of BootstrapLabs, will speak on the Opportunities and Headaches of Cross-Border Investing, alongside […]

What can Emerging (Asian) Leaders learn from the Startup Revolution?

BootstrapLabs spoke to a group of Emerging Leaders Fellow  on technology empowerment, lean governments and late adopters’ opportunities at The Asia Foundation round table last September. With offices in South East Asia and Korea, BootstrapLabs has a a strong pulse on cultural differences, opportunities and challenges in the region, and believes Asia has been and will remain […]

Who needs a Bank anymore? Millennials are asking just that!

BootstrapLabs recently spoke about the danger of Banks becoming irrelevant and shared its thoughts on Globalization, Disruption and the “Future of Money” with 10 Senior Executive from Swiss banks (i.e., BCV, Lombard Odier, Pictet, Julius Baer, NorInvest, Piguet Galland, etc.) during Swissnex ‘Future of Money” Tour. According to the Millennial Disruption Index, Banking is the […]

Dear Corporation…Innovate or Die: Speech to 25 Top CIOs

As a Global Technology Venture Investment Company deeply rooted in Silicon Valley, BootstrapLabs is at the forefront of global innovation trends and shared its observations and wisdom with France Fortune 50 CIOs from Lafarge, Gemalto, EDF, Decathlon, Alcatel-Lucent, Accor, La Poste, SNCF, AirLiquid, etc. that were all invited by Oracle France as part of their […]

Catch BootstrapLabs Founder @ Incubate 2014 – Woodside Sep 12, 2014

Incubate is the first conference dedicated to early founders and their choices of a Springboard. LEARN: directly from the Valley’s best Angels, Incubators, Accelerators, and VCs about the early stage choices for your next venture. PITCH: all founders get their shot at pitching VCs like Greylock Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Spark Capital, and […]

BeGlobal – San Francisco Sep 12, 2014

Join our friends at beGLOBAL for the annual Global Tech Conference with a Korean touch. Organized by the organizers of beLAUNCH, the top startup conference in Korea, beGLOBAL brings together the best of Tech from the East and West. Learn who the Unicorns of Korea/Asia are, their origins and how they grew to billion dollar […]

CTIA – The Wireless Association® Selects BootstrapLabs as Mobile Community Leader to Source Innovation Globally

  We are proud to announce that CTIA – The Wireless Association® has selected BootstrapLabs to join its exclusive club of Mobile Community Leaders in an effort to source global innovation and help shape its new CTIA Startup Lab initiative featuring 40 of the most exciting seed and growth-stages technology startups for its inaugural class […]

All the tools a Founder needs!

BootstrapLabs is excited to announce a new partnership with Foundersuite where we are getting 6 months of free access for all of our portfolio companies and network partners. BootstrapLabs has been actively mentoring and advising the team at Foundersuite since 2012 when the company was just a raw idea. The concept has evolved considerably since then and […]

BootstrapLabs launch Silicon Valley FastTrack Partnership with HaxAsia, a Hardware 2.0 Accelerator in Singapore

San Francisco, April 3, 2014 – We are excited to announce that HaxAsia, a global Hardware 2.0 startup accelerator based in Singapore, is joining BootstrapLabs’ Silicon Valley Fast Track partner program. This means that BootstrapLabs and HaxAsia will jointly review and vet the Startups that go through HaxAsia’s program to find the ones that can be […]