Nathan Lustig

The 40 people who can change your life are, after your family and friends, the most important people in your life. I first learned about the 40 important people who can change your life from Roy Elkins, the found of Broadjam.com and member of my MERLIN Mentor Team here in Madison.  The concept is simple, [...]

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Of all the lessons I learned running a startup, figuring out how to deal with people who did not take us seriously solely because of our age might have been the most important.  Many times, I could tell that the person on the other end of the telephone or across the desk was thinking “who are [...]

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Note: This is the second in a series of posts about policy changes that make starting a business easier.  The first post on heath care is here. According to the US Department of Labor, there are a little over 1 million new businesses created in the US each year.   The popular misconception is that 90% fail [...]

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Note: This is the first in a series of posts about policy changes that make starting a business easier It was the winter of 2005, and I was sophomore at the University of Wisconsin.  My business, ExchangeHut, was humming along smoothly and I decided that I wanted to focus on building ExchangeHut sites at additional college [...]

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I was talking with a friend who is in the UW Business School about a discussion in one of his classes about the best time to start a business.  Most of the class believed that the best time to start a business was 5-10 years after college.  They argued that it would be best to [...]

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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 [...]

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