How to Build and Accelerate Startups That Last Date: Wednesday, March 14 Time: 12-1:30 p.m. Location: Berkeley Rep Theater, 2020 Addison, in Downtown Berkeley. Join us for a lunch and discussion with Nicolai Wadstrom, a serial entrepreneur, who after starting and selling several tech companies, decided to incubate a whole bunch at once. Nicolai is […]
The topic of founder liquidity is interesting, proponents talk about helping entrepreneurs “pay the mortgage.” or get less stress around driving the company to an exit. In other words: A company gets founded, generates revenue, the CEO pulls a modest salary but the challenging exit environment means that they remain distracted by personal financial obligations. […]
Great article about Zerply in the New York Times: Despite its recent IPO, there’s a strong feeling among many people online that the professional network LinkedIn doesn’t quite work for them. Despite its millions of users, it isn’t necessarily easy to find people on LinkedIn that you’d want to work for you. And just as importantly, […]
BootstrapLabs, in collaboration with PariSoma, is looking for three European startups that are ready to come to Silicon Valley to participate in the European Startup Demo Night in San Francisco on July 21st. The European Startup Demo Night is an invitation only event, that will match a select group of 10 startups with an audience of over […]
Please join BootstrapLabs founder, Nicolai Wadstrom, on April 13, 2011, from 5:30pm to 8:00pm for a Silicon Vikings evening focusing on the needs of Nordic companies in transitioning to Silicon Valley, and the services, training and preparation which ought to be offered by incubators in the Nordic region to prepare start-ups for the journey. University […]
Today it’s official that the exciting professional social networking startup Zerply is part of the BootstrapLabs accelerator companies. We have been advising and working with Zerply for a few months, and we are really exciting about what Zerply is doing. Zerply is catering for the fact that the established leader in the professional networking space, […]
Stanford Engineering’s European Entrepreneurship and Innovation Thought Leaders (ME421) is a weekly speaker series that presents industry leaders from Europe’s hitech startup, venture finance, corporate and university research and technology commercialization communities to share their insights and experiences with aspiring and veteran entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley. From Ireland to Russia, and from Scandinavia to the […]
San Francisco – December 1, 2010 – BootstrapLabs is launching a new company in the Online-2-Offline Commerce space called Urban Metrics Inc (www.urbanmetrics.com). Urban Metrics offers an Online-2-Offline Commerce platform, that allows its partners to quickly enter the market with almost instant revenue. “We are strong believers in the social commerce that Groupon have paved […]
This is a great video from Kiva.org founder Jessica Jackley, and it tells a great story about Entrepreneurship, both on her account and for the Entrepreneurs around the world that Kiva.org is helping every day. Jessica Jackley is the co-founder of Kiva.org, an online community that helps individuals loan small amounts of money, called microloans, to […]
Gothenburg and Silicon Valley, June 24, 2010 BootstrapLabs company Witsbits® AB, the Scandinavian pioneer in cloud computing solutions for metering and billing of cloud infrastructure today closed a funding round with Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund, a Swedish early stage investment fund. “The Go-Cloud technology is one of the most exciting solutions in the Cloud computing […]
BootstrapLabs company Witsbits, add another serial entrepreneur to its advisory board that also invests an undisclosed sum in the company. Witsbits is the company behind Go Cloud™, a software suite that quickly turn of-the-shelf servers and infrastructure into a unified compute and storage cloud, for Internet service providers. More information follows: Gothenburg, June 1, 2010. […]
IDG Blogger Magnus Penker blogged about BootstrapLabs (in Swedish), read it here: http://blogg.idg.se/magnuspenker/entry.jsp?messid=11959
The Silicon Valley star’s company has attracted lots of interest, and $300 million. Can he deliver with his innovative approach? This is a structured angel funding approach that might work very well, see the video and read the whole Business Week article here.
23rd of June 2009 San Francisco and Göteborg. For immediate release, Witsbits has entered into an agreement with San Francisco based BootstrapLabs to establish US presence. Setting up US presence is the first step of an extensive agreement between Witsbits and BootstrapLabs. BootstrapLabs is additionally to provide Witsbits with advisory and strategic planning, secure an […]
ArcticStartup.com’s Paula Marttila wrote about BootstrapLabs today. Great article, and really sums up what we are looking for here at BootstrapLabs (and our excitement about Prezi!) If you are a Scandinavian startup or interested in Scandinavian startups, vc’s and Entrepreneurship, make you follow ArcticStartup.com, which I think is very well on it’s way to become […]