Nicolai Wadstrom on Entrepreneurship
A Swedish/European Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley
The 6 different ways to perceive time
May 28th
Great presentation on a study of how time is perceived by us humans
The Italian reference is very interesting if you have been travelling around Italy a bit. I know that I am the future oriented with a lot of faith in the future, and I rather work and play (but mostly work…), but I try to make my work as fun as play (so I think most of it is really play).
Which of the 6 types are you? What are your thoughts on this way to look at time?
Affiliate programs for restaurant reservations in the US?
May 19th
From one of the BootstrapLabs projects, we have been looking at affiliate programs for restaurant reservations here in the US, but it seems like the only big player in the reservation space is OpenTable, that IMHO has a pretty unattractive affiliate program. They reset earnings each month, they have min. threshold for payment with no roll-over of earnings to next month – and the have a pretty high number of reservations to be useful.
Please comment on experience, thoughts or ideas for other affiliate programs for restaurant bookings!
Google voice transcribe, kind of works
May 18th
Ok, Google Voice is great, and I really enjoy the voice to text function to get searchable voice mails. But sometimes it does not work very well, and turns out pretty funny.
It’s almost as this could be a spammer nonsense text (the actual message is in Swedish, and says something of the tune, translated of course: “I don’t need to pick up my daughter, so can meet at 11.00″ at your office, my mobile number is xxx).
Google Voice “amusement” version:
I spoke to you, give you 1,000,007 and the women’s open for us to kinda circle matter how much on and call me a phone call them and the American way in the that Taylor and while talked. The did come to love him and just wanted to know if the Ball Kai on the phone cut off and a couple of minutes. 2nd Street and I wanted to. I was going also, so we’ll talk over the summer forum. Okay, have, a, also we will be used, for the personal book something going on if you got them all. Dot at the moment. No need to, this is not a sale.
How in the world did Google Voice generate this long message?? (no Swedish is not that verbose!)
Being lean is not always the way to go
May 17th
A very insightful post from Ben Horowitz (as always), he writes about the “fat startup” and the fact that being lean is not a purpose in itself, but rather a mean to an end. And the end os to prove and win the market (before you run out of cash).
Here is my central argument. There are only two priorities for a start-up:Winning the market and not running out of cash. Running lean is not an end. For that matter, neither is running fat. Both are tactics that you use to win the market and not run out of cash before you do so. By making “running lean” an end, you may lose your opportunity to win the market, either because you fail to fund the R&D necessary to find product/market fit or you let a competitor out-execute you in taking the market. Sometimes running fat is the right thing to do.
Full post here.
Anna Wilkens joins BootstrapLabs as Communications Officer
Apr 28th
We are very happy to announce that Anna Wilkens have joined BootstrapLabs as a Communication Officer to work with BootstrapLabs communication, but primarily help our companies implement and manage their communications, web and social media presence.
Anna is a professional Communication Officer with 10 years experience in communication, manages the BootstrapLabs internal and external communication, and help’s our companies be more effective and targeted in their communication strategies and implementation.
ProgrammersHeaven.Com launch Flash section with Adobe
Apr 16th
BootstrapLabs company ProgrammersHeaven.com this week launched a section dedicated to developing applications using Flash and Flex.
The website can be seen here:
http://flash.programmersheaven.com/
And also on the ProgrammersHeaven.com homepage: http://www.programmersheaven.com/
This gives the members at ProgrammersHeaven.com an easy access to flash related resources, as well downloads of SDK’s, Tutorials and a wealth of other information.
Ivory report interview with BootstrapLabs founder Nicolai Wadstrom
Mar 5th
This week Ivory Report, a Swedish analyst company, that provides reports and insight on early stage startups, published an interview with BootstrapLabs’ founder and CEO, Nicolai Wadstrom.
The report covered topics such as differences between the Swedish and Silicon Valley entrepreneurial climate, and eco-systems for innovation.
"Silicon Valley provides a critical mass of skills, risk willingness and capital" – says Nicolai Wadstrom
The report is available in it’s entirety for subscribers to Ivory Report.
Interview with Computer Games legend Scott Adams
Mar 2nd
BootstrapLabs company ProgrammersHeaven.com meet with Computer Games legend Scott Adams for an interview, and asked him about what he thinks about the Computer Games industry today and the new social web games.
Read the full story here.
Siri’s IPhone App Puts A Personal Assistant In Your Pocket
Feb 5th
This is what real-time search and the future of advertising is all about. This is were context matching, location based services converge. Whoever is the best at matching a context of a particular user with any offering, product and service will be the big winner in online advertising (which I guess is the monetization model for Siri).
TechCrunch writes:
You simply speak into the phone with a request like, “Find something to do in San Francisco this weekend.” It turns your speech to text and pushes your request out to an appropriate service on the Web such as Eventful or Citysearch, in this case. It not only attempts to bring you back the appropriate information based on context, time of day, and your location, but with your permission can go ahead and make reservations or buy tickets as well. (Read our extensive first-look coverage from last year or watch this sneak-peak video)
Read more here: Siri’s IPhone App Puts A Personal Assistant In Your Pocket
Bodega: A Cross-Platform Marketplace That Lets Gamers Swap Virtual Currencies For Cash
Nov 5th
TechCrunch wrote about Bodega today. Bodega is a very interesting idea, and I think we will see more and more of these.
But I wonder when the SEC:s an FSA:s of the world will start to regulate these as some form of banking business…
More at TechCrunch:
Bodega: A Cross-Platform Marketplace That Lets Gamers Swap Virtual Currencies For Cash
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