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DreamForce & BootstrapLabs Event in SF
There are about 150,000 extra people in San Francisco this week. Once again it is time for DreamForce, Salesforce’s annual conference for customers, vendors, and developers.Billed as “the premier…
5 skills founders better verify before deciding to add a core team member
Today's guest post is from Tommaso Di Bartolo. Startup is an amazing crazy ride. Unlike corporate business, every moment in startup makes you remember you live because of the thrilling paths and the…
Learn how to be a successful Angel Investor!
 The venture world is changing profoundly and over the next few months we will see a…
The Unicorn Factory: De/Coding and Leveraging Silicon Valley - Event with BootstrapLabs in Stockholm, Sweden
 Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder and CEO of BootstrapLabs and Magnus Bergman, Venture Investment Partner at BootstrapLabs…
AngelList Syndicates 1-0-1
As most you know I have been an early supporter of what Naval and his team is doing with AngelList, I think AngelList is…
Venture: Seed is the New Series A
In a world where access is king and real “value-add” to startup founders creates true differentiation, some Series A (and even Seed) VC firms are in for a rude awakening. The Shift Seed is the New…
Trusted Insight: Disrupting the $6 Trillion Alternative Asset Market
Two weeks ago, we wrote about how AngelList is disrupting the angel investment landscape with its syndication model, and last week we announced our own AngelList syndicate in partnership with Gil…
BootstrapLabs partners with Gil Penchina, launches AngelList Syndicates
AngelList logoBootstrapLabs is partnering with Gil Penchina, the 1 Syndicate Lead on AngelList with over $6.5M in backing (more info below), and launches its syndicates. Last week we published the…
The Rise of Angel(List) and how it is rapidly changing the game of angel investing
Disclosure: BootstrapLabs invested in AngelList, see our profile here. The cost of building technology companies over the past decade has decreased by a factor of ten. Software has been eating the…
Software Powered Innovation - what does it really mean?
At BootstrapLabs we invest in the best entrepreneurs from all over the world with a focus on Software Powered Innovation or "Software will Eat the world" - as we see a huge opportunity for disruption…
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…
Google Root Access: How to choose technology to maximize funding, with investor Bootstraplabs
Google interview BootstrapLabs founder on how you apply technology impacts investment criteria and building startups.
Prezi raises $57M growth equity round, BootstrapLabs portfolio follow-on funding pass $90M
Our portfolio company Prezi, that has been eating away at Microsoft’s Powerpoint and Apple's Keynote market shares for the last few years, is…
Innovation is NOT that single break-through idea
 Innovations are often thought of something that is coming from a single disruptive or…
At Steve Blank's Request: Here is BootstrapLabs' Go Global Startup Playbook
Steve Blank recently published an interesting post called: Born Global or Die Local - Building a Regional Startup Playbook.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
VC Disruption: How to Build a Next Generation Venture Firm?
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…