Nathan Lustig

I’ve always been able to go back home to see my family during Christmas, but this year, I’m in Santiago.  I have strong memories of going to my Grandma’s house on Christmas Eve, sitting around a huge table with 10-15 extended family members.  We usually had the same food each year and then would open [...]

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I wrote a post last week about some of challenges facing Chilean would-be entrepreneurs because of the culture.  Overall, Chilean culture punishes failure, which stifles innovation. It got me thinking and I realized that it seems to me that a fixed percentage of people in the world are entrepreneurial.  I’m not sure what the exact [...]

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I haven’t written about Wikileaks at all yet because I’ve been trying to figure out where I stand on the issue.  I’m not comfortable with the response to the controversy from pretty much anyone so far.  I don’t like that the US and other governments around the world are going after Julian Assange for doing [...]

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After our video in TechCrunch, I got a bunch of emails from entrepreneurs who were interested in applying to Start-Up Chile and wanted to know more about the program.  I decided to make a little FAQ for anyone who has questions about Start-Up Chile.  If you have any questions that I didn’t answer, put them [...]

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Ever since we’ve gotten to Santiago, we’ve heard from all sorts of people about Chile’s penchant for punishing failure.  Jesse wrote a really good post a few weeks ago about this topic called Punishing Failure and the Ramifications on Entrepreneurship and I wanted to add some more thoughts. I met a 26 year old Chilean [...]

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Viña del Mar is the closest beach to Santiago, so we decided to take a trip.  I went with a few of friends from Startup Chile, including Tiago (Portugal), Raj (UK), Hank (US) and Jesse.  We took the $5 bus through the hills and ended up in Viña about 1.5 hours later.  They played a [...]

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