Serial Entrepreneur, Business bootstrapping, Angel investor
San Francisco Bay Area
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- CEO & Founder at BootstrapLabs
- Co-Founder & Member, Board of directors at GlocalReach Ltd
- Past
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- Founder, Chairman, Board of directors at Enbou Ltd
- Lead Investor/Advisor at 360bet.com Holding Ltd
- Project/Management Consulting at SOS Alarm AB
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Nicolai Wadstrom’s Summary
I am an serial Entrepreneur, I am 35 years of age, and have been starting companies since 1996, ranging from consulting companies, software companies, media companies, computer games and internet companies. I have a fair bit of Telco experience, and have done some management consultancy to help other startups, and larger organizations in between, I have been a CEO, a CTO and have had few different hats through-out the past 12 years, now I try to do more, and have less hats.
Nicolai Wadstrom’s Specialties:
Business Development, Business Bootstrapping, Project Management, Software Architecture, Software Innovation.
Nicolai Wadstrom’s Experience
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CEO & Founder
BootstrapLabs
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
BootstrapLabs provides an out-post to help European companies get a presence in Silicon Valley to gain entry into the American market, do technology licensing, exits and funding.
BootstrapLabs also operates a business lab that create proven companies out of business ideas. -
Co-Founder & Member, Board of directors
GlocalReach Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
GlocalReach Ltd is an early stage startup that uses VoIP technology to offer new types of Voice communication services for people.
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Founder, Chairman, Board of directors
Enbou Ltd
(Management Consulting industry)
January 2004 — March 2009 (5 years 3 months)
Enbou offers advisory and qualified management consulting resources to companies in different growth phases. Our expertise and focus is primarily with-in early stage technology companies with-in the MICE (Media, Internet, Communications and Entertainment) sector. We provide professional services and a virtual Business Lab concept to help accelerate the growth and development of early-stage companies.
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Lead Investor/Advisor
360bet.com Holding Ltd
(Gambling & Casinos industry)
October 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Financial betting provider in the Nordic countries. Co-founder and seed investment, employed key staff (CEO), developed business models, wrote Business Plan, established initial service providers, doing Business Development to help grow the business.
http://www.360bet.com/
This company is now part of 360 Holding AB (publ) traded under 360H on First North (a part of Stockholm Exchange in Sweden) -
Project/Management Consulting
SOS Alarm AB
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Public Safety industry)
January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
Delivering security services project with-in the Visual Surveillance business area of SOS Alarm
Management consulting with-in the Visual Surveillance business area of SOS Alarm. Packaging of the services for the purpose of streamlining the service delivery model.
This was an engagement as a independent contractor. -
Owner
Wadstrom Consulting
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 8 months)
Small consulting company that provides Venture and Technology Consulting Services.
Customers include small startup companies as well as larger companies such as Orange etc. -
System Architect
Orange
(Telecommunications industry)
January 2003 — July 2003 (7 months)
Responsible for the system architecture for the part of the project that concerned Portal Services and Content Management in a global Telecommunications project. Work included setting up the structure and plan for this part of the project as well as the architecture using IBM Global Services Method.
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System Architect
IBM
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
March 2003 — July 2003 (5 months)
Responsible for the system architecture for the part of the project that concerned Portal Services and Content Management in a global Telecommunications project. The project was led by IBM Global Services. Work included setting up the structure and plan for this part of the project as well as the architecture using IBM Global Services Method.
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CTO, Founder
VIOMA
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — May 2002 (2 years 3 months)
Product strategy, partnerships with software companies (IBM, GT Software, WRQ etc), and OEM sales agreement with GT Software for VIOMA's core technolgy during 2001. Raised an additional of aprox 10 MSEK (1.1 MEUR).
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CEO, Founder
VIOMA
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 3 months)
Founded the company based on my products ideas for Content Management and System Integration Software. Raised aprox 17 MSEK (aprox 1.9 MEUR) in funding.
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CEO, Founder
VIOMA digital media
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — January 1999 (3 years 1 month)
Media consultant company, that provides professional services with-in 3D animation, Virtual Reality, interactive programming (such as computer games), Internet solutions. Clients include Magasin du Nord, Telia, Swedish Television, Mute Records, various Ad agencies. Released Computer game titles for children and educational purposes (Mysteriet på Greveholm). Also the company behind the Malmo Hacker Academy.
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Product Management
UpGrade
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1993 — December 1995 (3 years)
Product management of Hardware products for distribution for sales channels (distributors and resellers through-out Scandinavia) later on Product Management of IBM Software though Swedish Sales Channels.
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