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Venture Capital Industry: At the Dawn of a New Era
/in AngelList, BootstrapLabs, EIR, Insights, Silicon Valley, Unicorn, Venture Capital /by Luigi Congedo2015 has been a banner year for BootstrapLabs. During the past 12 months, we led our first Series A round in an exciting FinTech company, all our portfolio companies raised follow-on funding at higher valuation and we continued to expand our Expert in Residence team to support our portfolio companies. We believe that technology is […]
Venture Capital Disrupts Itself: Breaking the Concentration Curse
/in AngelList, Insights, Investor, Silicon Valley, Unicorn, Venture Capital /by Luigi CongedoPlease note this is a short version of the Venture Capital Disrupts Itself: Breaking the Concentration Curse report published by the Cambridge Associates. At the end of this blog post you can find the link to access to the original file. Venture Capital Disrupts Itself: Breaking the Concentration Curse The Old Wives Tale … […]
Oracle Inspiration Tour 2015: a morning with BootstrapLabs
/in BootstrapLabs, Event, Silicon Valley, Unicorn, Venture Capital /by BootstrapLabsAs 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
/in BootstrapLabs, Event, Nicolai Wadstrom, Silicon Valley, Sweden, Unicorn, Venture Capital /by BootstrapLabsLund, 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.
How to Milk a Unicorn… No Really, How?
/in BootstrapLabs /by Benjamin LevyVictoria Silchenko recently posted an article on LinkedIn, Confession of Venture Capitalists: How to milk a Unicorn where she interviewed some high profile VCs and Private Capital experts on the recent “private IPO” trend. Great topic, catchy title and excited that BootstrapLabs will be joining the discussion live at her upcoming Global Alternative Funding Forum on November […]
Learn how to be a successful Angel Investor!
/in BootstrapLabs /by Luigi CongedoThe venture world is changing profoundly and over the next few months we will see a huge increase in “big” seed stage (Pre Series A) deals. As Ben Levy, co-founder of BootstrapLabs, mentioned in his recent blog post “Seed is the New Series A”, we will over time see more and more seed stage investors […]
Venture: Seed is the New Series A
/in BootstrapLabs /by Benjamin LevyIn 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 Series A captures much of what is going on in the startup and VC world these days. The cost […]
Trusted Insight: Disrupting the $6 Trillion Alternative Asset Market
/in BootstrapLabs /by Benjamin LevyTwo 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 Penchina, the #1 AngelList Syndicate lead. Today we would like to tell you about Trusted Insight, a company that is applying the same disruptive […]
The Rise of Angel(List) and how it is rapidly changing the game of angel investing
/in BootstrapLabs /by Benjamin LevyDisclosure: 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 world, yielding incredible productivity gains that empower entrepreneurs to execute two to five times faster. Globalization, standardization and connectivity have all been driving unprecedented […]