Nathan Lustig

In 2011, Capital Entrepreneurs companies created 121 full time jobs, 66 part time jobs, and raised $23.7 million in funding, all in a time when Wisconsin’s economy is struggling to grow.  CE now is made up of 150 entrepreneurs who now employ over 200 full time and 100 part time workers.  When I started CE [...]

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Arnon Kohavi’s post on The Next Web titled Why this investor abandoned setting up a startup fund in Chile after just 6 months has provoked heated reaction inside and outside Chile.  I wanted to add to the discussion.  I’m the cofounder of Entrustet, the 7th team to arrive as part of Startup Chile in November [...]

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Note: I wrote this post back in May 2010 for a guest post on a large tech blog, but it never got used.  I found it today while going through my inbox and decided it was too good to not post.  This is my entrepreneurial journey from 2004 until May 2010. As I made my [...]

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My Mom has been looking into our family history over the past year or two and sent me this advertisement from a newspaper in Cedarburg, WI from 1923.  The ad on the right hand side is for my great-grandmother’s fur store, advertising the best furs in the Milwaukee area.  Her brother, my great-uncle, set up [...]

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I haven’t been writing much for my blog lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing!  I’ve been asked to write guest posts for a few different outlets over the past month or so and they are just now starting to get published.  Check out an excerpt of Five Lessons for raising money from family [...]

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I attended Alphatech’s Capital Savings and Raising event as part of the Forward Technology Festival on Monday night and it got me thinking about all of the ways we’ve hustled in our startups over the past six years.  In a startup, every dollar counts.  You you need to find creative ways to stretch every single [...]

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