Nathan Lustig

On the flight back from Austin after SXSW last March, I was taking with Jesse about how much fun it would be to have something like it in Madison.  We thought it would be cool to try to set something up for the summer.  When I got back, I pitched the idea to my friend [...]

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Ever since South By Southwest, I wanted to put on a smaller version in Madison.  SXSW was such an amazing experience because it was a place I could learn, meet awesome people and then relax with a happy hour and entertainment at night.  I pitched Matt Younkle on the idea few months back and we [...]

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I’ve been involved in the startup community in Madison for about 6 years now, but had a hard time fitting into the networking scene, especially as a college student who was also running a business.  Most of the entrepreneurship and networking events in Madison were either overrun by service providers trying to sell you something, [...]

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I wrote my Entrepreneur 101 post back in February and added Entrepreneur 101 as a stand alone page around the same time.  I wanted to create a page where I could share all of the little things, services and time savers that I’ve learned in five years of entrepreneurship with anyone else who’s thinking about [...]

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4WF7X8NSTHFD The 2010 Burrill business plan competition was held yesterday at UW.  One year ago today, Jesse and I won the students choice award for Entrustet.  Writing the plan, talking to the judges and presenting at the competition helped us launch the company.  Almost one exactly year later, we had our launch party in Madison [...]

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According to John Maudlin, startups and new small businesses are “the job-creation engine of the US.” He is right.  In a report by the Kauffman Foundation using US Census Data, start-ups and businesses less than five years old created all of the net new jobs over the last 25 years. It is incredibly easy to [...]

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