Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder of BootstrapLabs, and I have been on a quest to build a new kind of venture investment firm in the cradle of where it all started 50+ years ago; Silicon Valley. For background, Nicolai Wadstrom is a Swedish born serial entrepreneur that started building technology companies in his teens. He built a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
At BootstrapLabs we believe “Silicon Valley can not be replicated but its culture and best practices can be taught”. As such, we felt it was important for BootstrapLabs to invest in education and are pleased to announce the launch of SV In.Fusion, a 2 week startup bootcamp in Silicon Valley, specifically tailored for foreign founders. This […]
San Francisco, California — Silicon Valley-based BootstrapLabs, a global accelerator for foreign technology startups, today announced that Jeff Hoffman, Founding team member of the Priceline.com group of companies and serial global technology entrepreneur, has joined its Advisory Board. Over the past 2 years, Jeff has spent the majority of his time supporting entrepreneurs and small […]
In the past few weeks, the BootstrapLabs team have been speaking at various events around the world, some highlights: Arabnet Digital Summit (Dubai) Benjamin Levy shared the BootstrapLabs story and spoke about how startups in emerging markets are creating grass-roots empowerment for the future of our global economy at Arabnet Digital Summit. Interesting #accelerator panel […]
Great interview with Benjamin Levy from the annual Arabnet Digital Summit in Dubai
Our friend Matt will be visiting some of the hottest cities of Asia early June: Seoul, Jakarta, Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka and Manila. As most of you know by now, Matt just raised a huge round of financing, clearly putting his company in the $Bn club, and has the ambition that goes with it. As someone […]
Besides launching startups, I have been a software developer for all of my adult life (and more) – likely also something that made me an entrepreneur over 20 years ago. There is one key thing that I applied for the past 15+ years in software development, and that is the core principals of XP (Extreme Programming, […]
Accelerator program for foreign startups gets boost from top minds in cloud, mobile, infrastructure and marketing March 25, 2014, San Francisco, California — Silicon Valley-based BootstrapLabs, a global accelerator for foreign technology startups, today announced that Jason Hoffman, VP at Ericsson and Founder of Joyent, Rikard Steiber, Chief Digital Officer at Modern Times Group and […]
We are excited to announce that Minc (a leading startup incubator in Malmö, Sweden) is joining BootstrapLabs’ partner program Silicon Valley Fast Track. This means that BootstrapLabs and Minc jointly will review and vet the Startups that go through Minc’s program to find the ones that can be accelerated from Silicon Valley to to build global […]
On February 20th, 5:30 pm, San Francisco Startup BD is about growing your company by doing deals. Experts from Facebook, Pinterest, Klout, Spotify, DocuSign, Foundersuite, Automattic (WordPress), MessageMe and more will talk about how to use strategic partnerships, APIs, and platforms to fuel growth. We will also cover best practice, tips for doing deals, and […]
Venture capitalists sold only 388 companies via mergers or acquisitions last year, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association, Thomson Reuters (our own BootstrapRadar is showing similar stats). It is the lowest such total since 2009, and nearly a 23% decline from 2012. Does that mean that the VC industry is cooling down? […]
Our portfolio company Prezi is Zooming ideas from Budapest to the World! Since 2009, Prezi has gone from 3 founders and a few early team members in Budapest to a US company scaling to the world from San Francisco Bay area/Silicon Valley. Today there are 36,000,000 people zooming through to visualize their ideas, and they […]