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Thanks, Amazon

By Nicolai Wadstrom On July 1, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Cloud

The weather in Eastern US is a personal tragedy for some people, and is making many other daily lives troublesome.

For much of the Silicon Valley and Startup crowd, it has brought down some major web services, such as Netflix, Pintrest, Instagram, this website and a number of Read Full Article →

Happiness, outliers and Entrepreneurs

On June 25, 2012 By Nicolai Wadstrom

This is why Entrepreneurship is less prevalent in “average” societies or normalized societies. In societies that strive to create a norm, we eliminate the outliers, the entrepreneurs and the extraordinary talent. In societies that embrace individuality, the outliers typically flourish.

Watch this great TED video on research on happiness, that touch this in the beginning, and a good lesson on happiness:

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Dethroning Silicon Valley

On June 11, 2012 By Nicolai Wadstrom

In reply to “Silicon Valley is losing it’s X Factor” by Alex Barrera, today, Mattias thanks for the tweet!

Well written post, but I don’t really agree with (all of) his conclusions, and some facts are wrong, Songkick was not Sequoia’s first European [...]

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Newsweek, seriously?

On March 13, 2012 By Nicolai Wadstrom

Newsweek, seriously?

Yesterday Newsweek published a provocative article by Rob Cox, called “The Ruthless Overlords of Silicon Valley.” It is about the entrepreneurs that created companies, and did share the spoils generously with employees to create  more millionaires than anybody in history.

Behind the hoodies and flip-flops lurk businesspeople as rapacious as the [...]

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Prezi CEO, Co-founder and friend Peter Arvai talk about health care

On February 15, 2012 By Nicolai Wadstrom

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Proposing a DNS record for Maven repositories

On January 30, 2012 By Nicolai Wadstrom
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If you know all about Maven skip down to A DNS Record for Maven Repositories

Most people that do software development and/or deployment on environments that run on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), have come across Apache Maven (or tools such as Read Full Article →

Startup Product Feedback: Unlimited Cloud Storage

On January 4, 2012 By Nicolai Wadstrom
I see a lot of different startup ideas, concepts and early-stage products every week. Here is one that emerged recently, that I would like to get some feedback on! It is in the kind of crowded Cloud Storage spaces, but it seems that it is also an quickly and ever growing need combined with an [...]
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Why Amazon EC2 CPU Steal Time does not work (well) for Web apps

On January 3, 2012 By Nicolai Wadstrom

Compute Virtualization (such as EC2)  works by dividing the physical machine (and thus the CPU) into many virtual machines, that each get served a slice of the physical machine (a high performance CPU with 4 cores might get divided into 8 virtual machines for example). To keep the total available compute power fair between the virtualized [...]

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The Riskmaster, featuring Tim Draper

On December 27, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom

This is not new, but was looking for Songs related to Entrepreneurship, and remembered this with Tim Draper, still a lot of kudos Tim!

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Reinventing IT – Clayton M. Christensen @ Gartner Symposium 2011

On December 5, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom

Clayton M. Christensen talks about “Reinventing IT”, a must read book, and talk to watch for any Entrepreneur wanting disrupt.. Just about anything. Or rather understand why big established markets can be disrupted.

(You need to have Silverlight installed for the presentation to be displayed properly)

Courtesy of Gartner Group.

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Build Hybrid Clouds with Witsbits

On December 1, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom

Fresh from the Witsbits blog:

Yesterday we snuck out a new major release* of Witsbits! We are very exited about it, please check it out and send us your comments about it!

A major upgrade is the Hosted Private Cloud feature. You can now rent servers from your favorite service provider directly [...]

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How to succeed in Silicon Valley @ Innovate Sweden event at Stanford

On November 4, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom

A short presentation on some key things about connecting to the Silicon Valley eco-system, that I presented at Stanford this Wednesday (2nd of November 2011) at the Innovative Sweden event.

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Startup Chile meet-up in Mountain View

On August 2, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom
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The Startup Chile program, is the best effort I have seen to “clone” Silicon Valley, by any country or region. It’s a really smart and exciting idea.
What they do is giving away $40,000 grants over the next 4 years (to 1,000 entrepreneurs) to early stage startups willing to move to Chile for 6 [...]

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New York Times: Zerply: A Non-Corporate LinkedIn, Built For and By the Web Generation

On June 20, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom
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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 [...]

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Dave McClure invests in Zerply!

On June 9, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom
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Great news, that have already appeared in a few places across the web:  We are very happe to share that Dave McClure is now investing in Zerply!

Congratulations Christofer, Taaniel and the rest of the team!

Zerply will also work with the 500 Startups program, which will greatly help Zerply accelerate their momentum. BootstrapLabs and [...]

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European Startup Demo Night in San Francisco

On May 27, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom

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 [...]

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The Startup Visa – crucial for Silicon Valley!

On May 19, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom

The Startup Visa has been on it’s way to legislation since last year, the Startup Visa had been first introduced in the US Senate in 2010 but was allowed to expire. Now it’s time again, and I hope it will become legislation, because if there is one single thing I learned about what makes Silicon [...]

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It’s not the technology, stupid!

On May 16, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom

There is a trend and a lot talk about Digital Distraction Disorder (on the web of course), and a lot of people saying things like:

“I don’t want technology…” “I don’t like technology… “ “Sometimes I just want to be disconnected and have no technology”

I am all for disconnecting from our always on, always [...]

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Maybe there is hope for Spotify

On May 4, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom

Maybe there is hope for Spotify after all, after reading this: iPod, Meet Spotify; iTunes, Say Hello To Your Future Rival. First I have to say that I absolutley love Spotify’s product. It’s a great team, and I am furtunate to be connected with some [...]

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BootstrapLabs now also in San Francisco!

On May 3, 2011 By Nicolai Wadstrom

Starting in May, BootstrapLabs now also has an office location in SOMA in San Francisco. CEO/Founder of BootstrapLabs, Nicolai Wadstrom will be working from this office from now on. At this location we also have space to host our European founders when they are in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Redwood City through our Partnership [...]

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