Nathan Lustig

Have you ever set a goal that you wanted to accomplish, only to give up after a few days or weeks?  How about a New Years resolution?  If you are like me, your probably set a bunch of different goals each year, but are only successful on attaining a small percentage.
Most of my goals are not [...]

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City Dictionary is a Madison-based startup that organizes user generated definitions for local slang and locations.  Co-founded by brothers and Wisconsin grads Thomas and John Carmona, City Dictionary is similar to urban dictionary, but location based and and city specific.  Thomas Carmona told me their “goal is to capture the subtleties of American cities that [...]

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Yesterday, I reviewed Alice.com, a Madison-based startup that launched earlier this week.  Today, I’m looking at GeoBuzz, a new product by the Madison-based startup PerBlue.  PerBlue was founded by a few UW students last year and already have had some good success with its mobile device, location based MMORPG Parallel Kingdom.
GeoBuzz is a really cool [...]

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On Monday, Alice.com was released to the outside word.  The Madison based startup, founded by the already successful Mark McGuire and Brian Wiegand, allows consumers to buy non-perishible consumer goods online and have them delivered directly to their door and never pay shipping.  The site sends reminders when it thinks you might be running low [...]

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I had read about the power of crowd surfing over the last few years, but had never gotten a chance to actually try it out.  My partner from ExchangeHut, Corey Capasso, introduced me to CrowdSpring, a cool new startup that is crowd surfing for graphic design.  Its a simple idea, but it works amazingly well. [...]

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“When Should we Meet?”
It’s a tough question, especially if you are trying to schedule a meeting with more than two or three people.  My friend Jason Strutz, who also wrote ExchangeHut, just completed a new project aimed at answering this very question.
MeetingWhen is a free , easy to use tool to help you schedule meetings.
Instead of bouncing emails [...]

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