Nathan Lustig

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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I’ve never written a post solely telling readers to read someone else’s work, but Paul Graham‘s newest essay called “What Startups are Really Like” is so good I’ll break my rule.  Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, a company that funds startups and gives them guidance, money and a community for to help them [...]

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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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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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