Nathan Lustig

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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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 get asked to connect people all the time.  I also ask others to connect me to people every single day.  Getting introductions is an incredibly powerful way to get to know people who can help you with your business or in your personal life.  It’s also great to be able to give an introduction [...]

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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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UPDATE: Shortly after I wrote this post, I got a follow up email from a member of Sen. Feingold’s staff with the correct email response.  The next day, I got a phone call from a different member of the staff apologizing and asking if they could do anything else to help me and yesterday, I [...]

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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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