Nathan Lustig

The first annual Build Madison community create-a-thon is being held this weekend at Sector67.  Build Madison is a 24-hour event open to anyone in Madison with ideas, skills and the desire to create something over a weekend.  Everyone gets together at Sector67 at 11am on Saturday to brainstorm ideas and form teams.  After the pitch [...]

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I first met Geoff Hamrick and George Junginger at SXSW 2010 at one of the panels.  They had an idea to make photo books social and had launched a beta version of Group Story, which allows friends to make photo books using all of their photos. For example, when I went to the World Cup [...]

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Square has the potential to be a game changer.  It allows anyone with an iPhone to accept credit cards.  The founders, who previously founded Twitter, realized that while just about everyone has credit cards, only 2% of credit card holders had the ability to accept them.  From their site: Square changes all that.  All you [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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