On just the first day here in Santiago, Chile, I had a very interesting conversation with a thoughtful Chilean businessman about the cultural difference between the U.S. and Chile regarding the punishment of failure. He explained to me that the biggest impediment for entrepreneurs in Chile is the fact that Chilean culture harshly punishes failure …
Hi all! I’ve been busy this summer and haven’t been able to blog as much on here as I’d like to. I plan on getting back into the swing of things on Entreprecurious, but in the meantime, follow my posts on Entrustet’s Blog. I’m doing a summer-long blog series on how to set up a …
It took 10 months for my co-founder Nate Lustig and I to get from the ‘garage’ to the ‘couch.’ During the 6 months or so of the ‘garage phase,’ we mainly worked separately from our apartments, sometimes meeting up at the UW-Business School for a whiteboard sesh as needed. When the glorious Madison summer arrived …
