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171: TZ Discussion – Interview with the Unicorn

Justin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss how Justin’s apartment almost burned down and how he sold his house in the UK, the television shows Fringe, Prophets of Science Fiction, Bloomberg Game Changers and the movie Limitless, the progress being made on AnyFu and the challenge of recruiting well-known experts, listener questions, the story of what happend to Jason’s movie idea, the possibility of recurring donations and winning the iTunes review war with Startups for the Rest of Us, effective criticism, Alex MacCaw’s new Ace framework (think Sinatra for Node.js), insight from Uber’s most successful driver, the risk of premature generalization, how SmartGit makes Git easy and why research on the H5N1 virus has been temporarily halted.

170: TZ Interview – Paul Paetz / Innovative Disruption

Justin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:00:47 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Paul Paetz CEO of Innovative Disruption and curator of Innovative Disruption Daily.

169: TZ Interview – Alex MacCaw

Justin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:17:57 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Alex MacCaw, author of JavaScript Web Applications, The Little Book on CoffeeScript, Spine.js and a bunch of other cool stuff.

168: TZ Interview – Patrick Collison / Stripe

Justin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:11:43 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Patrick Collison, co-founder of the online payment processing startup, Stripe.

167: TZ Discussion – How Darth Vader Got Screwed

Justin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:05:31 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the latest in brain boosting, why to-do lists don’t work, the ethics of deleting a user’s data after they’ve closed their account, the upcoming MicroConf 2012 conference, getting more iTunes reviews, Jason’s idea for applying a points system to Masterminding, the latest progress on AnyFu, the painful process of acquiring an SSL Extended Validation certificate and why Jason opposed the idea of purchasing an SSL certificate from GoDaddy, encrypting social security numbers, how one of the founders of TheGlobe is applying the Angel List model to Hollywood, why the actor who played Darth Vader still isn’t getting paid residuals, some ideas on how to disrupt Hollywood, why ACTA is the new SOPA, the new show segment known as the Doom and Gloom Report, how the oldest ship in the navy, the USS Enterprise, AKA the “Mobile Chernobyl”, is heading straight to the Strait of Hormuz, why India is going to pay gold for Iranian oil, how the LAPD coordinated with the CIA on terrorism (which is a big no-no) and Jason’s prediction for the evolution of AnyFu.

166: TZ Interview – Anthony Goldbloom & Jeremy Howard / Kaggle

Justin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:03:14 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard, co-founders of Kaggle, a platform for predictive modeling competitions.

165: TZ Interview – Rob Walling / HitTail

Justin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:00:07 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about the acquisition and release of his new site HitTail.

164: TZ Discussion – War, the Price of Oil and You

Justin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:38:47 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s recent post about converting his site from PayPal to Stripe, Jason’s idea for a mathematical equation describing the tyranny of choice, the latest on Pluggio, AnyFu and Appignite, why Jason believes war with Iran is likely and how the price of oil will skyrocket if it happens, the story of how Jason’s attempt to sell his house before the market crashed in 2007, 3D printing, RepRap and MakerBot, Colby’s awesome new RC helicopter, the DC taxi commissioner who’s trying to stop Uber, what kind of jobs belong to the 1%, Jason’s idea for crowd-sourcing the identification of logical fallacies in news columns and opinion pieces, whether journalists should be truth vigilantes, how Jason and Guyon built a profiler for Node.js, NASA’s discovery that there are 1,500 earth-sized planets within 50 light-years of earth, upcoming interviews and Jason’s idea for creating a synthetic university education.

163: TZ Discussion – Shadow Hoppers

Justin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:00:33 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, How in-flight entertainment systems are architected, Irish ATM’s weird defaults, How Moore’s Law may work for years to come due to quantum anomaly, Justin’s idea of flipping a house, and much more.

Executive Producer #1: Dave Marshall

Executive Producer #2: Alex Gemmell

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162: TZ Discussion – Happy Christmas

Justin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:18:28 +0000

TechZing Christmas special. Justin and Jason talk about SOPA, Functioning Synapse Created Using Carbon Nanotubes, AnyFu, StartupGuild, Predictions for 2012, Jason shooting a film with Colby and of course, Christmas.

Shout-out donation by Felix Long. Thanks

161: TZ Discussion – The Cycle of Life

Justin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:44:16 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why Peter and Alex were asked to fill in for Jason on last week’s show, why our brains seem to get slower over time, Justin’s struggle to remain productive while on his six week “work-cation”, why Jason accepted a full-time consulting contract with Uber, whether it’s worth entering the LAUNCH startup competition if you’re not planning on raising money, the process of setting up the AnyFu bank account, switching some of Uber’s infrastructure from MongoDB to Redis, comparing Uber’s rocket-ship growth rate to it’s humble beginnings, the success of Louis C.K.’s DVD experiment, Jason’s one-dollar Christmas moment, capturing light at a trillion frames per second, the latest breakthrough in solar panel efficiency, why long vacations and retirement are boring, the only real way to stop SOPA, the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA and the FBI’s abuse of National Security Letters, and how Jason’s kids helped him get through his mother’s death.

160: TZ Panel – The British Invasion

Justin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:13:21 +0000

Justin, Alex Gemmell & Peter Cooper talk about various Hacker News stories including The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars, What really happened aboard Air France 447, More Paypal nonsense, Don’t Be A Free User, Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe, 17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing nanoparticle , Zendesk CEO calls Freshdesk a freaking rip off – Freshdesk responds.

159: TZ Discussion – A Little Too Clever By Half

Justin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:42:16 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Jason Cohen‘s WP Engine, the idea for a Kickstarter-like site that would allow customers to prepay for a pre-launched service, getting AnyFu out the door and lessons learned so far, the man-made super flu that could kill half of humanity, why musicians and other creatives seem to get progressively worse over time, 17 Jedi mind tricks for persuading people, understanding the Hype Cycle, selling brand name training shoes in India, and the latest on Justin’s juice diet.

158: TZ Discussion – The Economic Efficiency of Bribing Your Kids

Justin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:07:56 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss working while traveling, their dissatisfaction with Asana and the low tech solution they’ve adopted, the pros and cons of “banking your enthusiasm”, the Cern Neutrino experiment, how a vacuum isn’t empty but contains “class definitions” of real particle known as virtual particles, the TV show John Doe, Arrested Development’s deal with Netflix, ideas on how to create AnyFu’s legal documents, PicoMoney and the virtual money concept, why SOPA is a nightmare, the best time to submit an article to HN, Jason’s experiment in using economic incentives to spike his son’s academic and athletic progress, how Roger Craig broke the all-time Jeopardy record using a knowledge tracking web app, three memory hacks that work, the dawn of the robot age, how the inventor of the Super Soaker is creating a new electric car battery and how spacing your kids two years apart makes them smarter.

157: TZ Discussion – Cold Fusion, Zynga Options and Other Fairy Tales

Justin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:41:14 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the progress being made on AnyFu and related business decisions, concepts from the book Running Lean, Paul Paetz of Innovative Disruption, why no one is going to steal an unproven idea, why you want to buy when everyone else is selling and sell when everyone else is buying, how Mark Pincus is attempting to steal equity from his employees, selling equity in private companies on Second Market, whether Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) is real or a fraud, how a new cancer drug is being used for weight loss, how energy efficiency of computing is doubling every 18 months, how the FBI is using GPS trackers without warrants and how Twitter had to turn over user information to the Feds without a warrant, the book The Shadow Factory (about the NSA), what elite achievers do differently and how the founder of Color is off his rocker.

156: TZ Discussion – To Uber HQ and Back

Justin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:00:05 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the tradeoffs of various payment options for AnyFu, Jason’s recent trip to Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco, Justin’s evolving partnership with Company 52 and Pluggio’s new design, the possibility of starting a TZ Fund, how news is like junkfood, MongoGate, Node.js for beginners, how to increase your “follow me on Twitter” conversions, why Justin unsubscribed from AppSumo, why Anonymous isn’t as anonymous as they need to be, the secret U.S. panel that can put Americans on a “kill list”, why the feds want to be able to lie about the existence of public records, and how the New York Times is suing the federal government for refusing to reveal its secret interpretation of the PATRIOT Act.

155: TZ Interview – Mathew Klein / Collective2

Justin — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:59:50 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Mathew Klein, founder of trading systems community Collective2 and author of the novels Con Ed and Switchback, about his experiences in the Dotcom crash, researching algorithmic trading systems, bootstrapping a web startup, and balancing his life as an entrepreneur and writer.

154: TZ Discussion – Taking the High Road

Justin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:15:31 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the progress being made on AnyFu and their differing development styles, Anonymous’ threat to expose a Mexican drug cartel, useful coding tools and JavaScript libraries, how Jason installed Windows 7 alongside OSX using Parallels and is kickstarting a collaboration with David Fogel on an AI trading project, Justin’s partnership with Company 52 and the future of Pluggio, some of Jason’s failed partnerships and why it’s better to take the high road, how you’re the average of your five closest friends, the secrets of a mind-gamer and the 60 Minutes segment on people with extraordinary memory, the Dan Plan and putting the 10,000 hour rule to the test, some of the friendships and collaborations that have resulted from Jason’s recent posts on algorithmic trading, the slave-master Node.js library that Jason and Curtis wrote for Uber, a short recap of some of the talks given at Startup School, the Netflix debacle and how Amazon is becoming a publisher, why Jason is so hard to please when it comes to non-fiction books and Justin’s book recommendation – Mars.

153: TZ Interview – Joanna Wiebe / CopyHackers

Justin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:33:33 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Joanna Wiebe author of CopyHackers, the definitive how-to guide for copywriting for startups!

152: TZ Discussion – Do It Right or Don’t Do It at All

Justin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:57:03 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s new Pluggio partnership and Pluggio’s latest revenue numbers, the progress being made on AnyFu and ideas for how to launch, Jason’s thought’s on Google+ and his recent post “Letter to a Flash Developer“, a list of recommended geeky audiobooks, an econometric article extending Jason’s “Do * Tell” concept and Jason’s realization of why he should have studied applied rather than pure mathematics.

151: TZ Interview – Chon Tang / Inside the Black Box of Algorithmic Trading

Justin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:43:12 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Chon Tang about his journey through MIT, the Dot-com bubble and angel investing to how he ultimately became a successful, independent algorithmic trader. Due to Jason’s background in the field, this episode digs deep into the details of algorithmic trading to discuss everything from the development, testing and optimization of trading models to trading software, execution gateways, clearing firms, leverage and risk management.

150: TZ Discussion – It’s Getting a Little Meta Up in Here

Justin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:11:25 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the TweetBoard.me results and it’s impact on Pluggio’s revenue, Justin’s upcoming blog post about three dimensional pricing plans, the tradeoffs of using PayPal Adaptive Payments for AnyFu, Justin’s new consulting client and the possibility of their involvement with Pluggio, the Bitbanter podcast calling it quits, Matt Swanson’s generous donation to the show, Jason’s blog post about why he quit algorithmic trading and his meta follow-up post on Google+, why Uber is having a hard time hiring developers, whether instantiating a virtual machine for each Appignite app would be overkill, Moneyball and other math geek movies, and Jason’s poll on what he should write about next.

Grand Patron: Matt Swanson

Thanks very much Matt

149: TZ Discussion – TweetBoard Goes Live

Justin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:24:10 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the release of Justin’s latest project, TweetBoard and it’s potential impact on Pluggio, some thoughts on writing single page web apps, why Jason is using Google+, whether the ORM is an anti-pattern, the latest on AnyFu and Appignite, an update on Justin’s plant-based diet and why Jason remains unconvinced of it’s scientific validity, Jason’s idea for using JSON to define the structure and behavior of a hierarchy of javascript widgets and the recently released book Design for Hackers.

148: TZ Discussion – Turning the Corner

Justin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:40:33 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the status and recent progress made on Pluggio, Appignite and AnyFu, lessons learned about when to initiate the design process, The Birdy’s custom feature voting system, Dan DeFelippi’s BidOnMyDay project, using NLP to cure “the madness”, when it makes more sense to incorporate as an LLC vs an S-Corp or C-Corp, a documentary on the evil business practices of Monsanto, an update on the sit vs stand debate, the weirdness of Benford’s Law, creating rich interactive web apps with KnockoutJS, the launch of Trello and whatever happened to Skyboard, finite state machines and the State design pattern

147: TZ Interview – Stavros Korokithakis / Historious

Justin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:53:01 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Stavros Korokithakis, founder of bookmarking service Historious, about how he bootstrapped a simple side project into a money generating startup while running a freelance consultancy.

146: TZ Discussion – The Truth About Oil, Twitter, Riots and Smiley Faces :)

Justin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:32:21 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the movie Forks over Knives, how a Twitter-based hedge fund beat the stock market, the cause of riots and the price of food, our oil-constrained future, the Japanese wind power breakthrough, the surprising truth about what motivates us, Puggio’s new three-ways business plan, why Jason is translating Appignite to Javascript, Steve Jobs and the eureka myth, lab grown meat, why the UK startup scene is doomed, rational home buying, Paul Graham’s patent pledge, Bid On My Day, when it’s better to increase conversions and when it’s time to hire a sales team, how John McAfee lost 96% of his wealth, going mobile first, the idea of investment tithing and how enthusiasm goes a long way over email.

145: TZ Discussion – Bad Cop, Sensitive Cop

Justin — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:22:39 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why staying up late can screw up your life, how Skype is almost the full realization of the magical CTU tech of the TV show 24, Peter Cooper’s Javascript Weekly newsletter, the prospect of migrating Appignite to a single-page web application, the advantages of leaving a problem unfinished at the end of a work session, Justin’s idea for a collective version of Groupon for websites codenamed Groupio, the high-cost of the context switch, whether AnyFu should be incorporated as an LLC and some ideas about vesting and founder death, Justin’s review of Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness, using Twitter’s location based search streams, the science of extreme life extension and Leslie Kean’s History Channel documentary Secret Access: UFOs on the Record.

144: TZ Discussion – Justin’s Big Left Nav

Justin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:44:01 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss whether software is actually eating the world, why Elon Musk is the most impressive entrepreneur in modern times, splitting payments using PayPal Adaptive Payments, how to solve the problem of the fractured social web, why Justin posts the kinds of links he does, some upcoming changes to Pluggio, the status of Jason and Guyon’s custom scrollbar component, Justin’s concern about working on code with Jason, whether begging is a type of social defection, Justin’s theory that the recent Anonymous BART hack was a false flag attack, the movie Apollo 18, NASA’s discovery of nucleobases on twelve different meteorites, a recent discovery that early life was sulfur-based, the current status of Appignite and the design of the AnyFu logo and character.

143: TZ Discussion – What It Takes to Be Entry Level Rich

Justin — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:56:23 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Scotty Jackson, the magical genius illustrator, why Justin is impressed by the Gooveshark UI, Jason’s frustration with the design process, what it takes to be entry level rich, more on the downgrading of US debt, the ethical implications of Justin automating his Twitter feed, the Bloomberg Risk Takers profile of Elon Musk, an update on the Pluggio SEO strategy and affiliate marketing campaign, how markets are efficient if and only if P = NP, how the San Francisco police asked wireless providers to turn off their signals to prevent a protest, possible causes for the London riots and who should be held accountable, former Clinton and Bush counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke’s accustation airing on ABC news about a CIA cover-up of 9/11, how Apple is stepping up to defend iOS devs against patent troll Lodsys, why Jason thinks losing weight is like doing a startup, adding TameJS to CoffeeScript, SafeCast, Jason’s interview about high-frequency trading and the prospect of open-sourcing some Uber code.

142: TZ Panel – Rob Walling and Mike Taber

Justin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:22:01 +0000

Justin and Jason chat with Rob Walling and Mike Taber hosts of the Startups For the Rest of Us podcast.

141: TZ Interview – Guyon Roche / Jason’s Partner in Crime

Justin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:58:24 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Jason’s partner in Appignite, Guyon Roche, about how they began working together and the advantages of pair programming, Guyon’s take on Appignite and AnyFu, why design can be important for startups, what percent of Twitter and Facebook accounts are real, an investment manager’s take on the top 1%, the most likely way to get rich, the reason for AnyFu’s high-end pricing policy, the potential impact of S&P’s downgrading of US debt, Rob Walling’s advice to bootstrap as a partnership rather than as a LLC, Jason’s idea on using resources like OpenCourseware and Tutorspree as an alternative to traditional education, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX, the status of Justin’s juice diet and an update on Pluggio’s growth.

140: TZ Discussion – Back on Track

Justin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:01:09 +0000

Justin ans Jason discuss Steve Perlman’s impossible wireless tech known as DIDO and the technology of WiTricity, why Pluggio’s growth has suddenly stalled out, logging slow queries using MySQL’s Slow Query Log and monitoring your site using SiteUptime, Jason and Curtis’s upcoming post on Uber’s Node.js based dispatching system, the designer they’ve hired to create AnyFu’s brand identity and UI and whether they should use Braintree or PayPal for payment processing, how Jason tried and abandoned jScrollPane to build his own custom scrollbar, Justin’s new Juice diet and the movie that inspired it, the sophistication and complexity of SQLAlchemy and Doctrine and the ORM Jason is building for Appignite, the Airbnb fiasco and some ideas on how they could mitigate that kind of problem in the future and the industrial scale patent trolling of Intellectual Ventures.

Executive Producers

Toby Osbourn

Ruben Gamez – Bidsketch

139: TZ Discussion – This Week in Holy Sh*t

Justin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:58:04 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the suspension of Justin’s 600 calorie per day diet and whether his plan to move to Ireland is such a s good idea, the process of finding a designer for AnyFu and the progress on the site mockups, the incredible rise in the value of Bitcoins and whether Bitcoins will ever really go mainstream and threaten the dollar, how the Japanese character set cracked Pluggio and made Justin confused, the importance of momentum in just about everything, Justin’s crazy work schedule and how Jason is juggling five client contracts, why Jason is considering open sourcing some of his code, whether the Singularity is near or far, the possibility of a CrunchFund, the worrisome addiction of drawing Anime, “black ops” in Pakistan, whether the world economy is near collapse and whether following the news is worth the effort, using Qwerly to clout rank your email list, why working for startups is a smart career move, how MemSQL offer’s a 30x performance enhancement over MySQL and the coolness of Google Web Fonts.

138: TZ Discussion – R.I.P Nigel Vincent

Justin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:05:46 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the death of Justin’s father, Udi’s blog post about Appignite, Uber’s technological origins and the new Node.js based dispatch server, rapid UI design using mockups, the core problems that AnyFu needs to solve, using Showcase Lane to get feedback on UI design, a La Critique of The Birdy, an update on Pluggio’s growth, whether it’s better to use dashes or underscores in SEO slugs, finding a logo design for AnyFu and the importance of good design, Jason’s slightly contrarian position on the lean startup model, using MySQL fulltext search vs a search engine like Solr or Sphinx, running server-side Javascript on RingoJS, Justin’s strategy for curing himself of diabetes, how Kevin Rose and Evan Williams are both starting incubators, the possibility that Justin will be moving back to Ireland and the idea for an open version of Y-Combinator.

137: TZ Discussion – Lessons for Justin and His $100 Million

Justin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:47:40 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the progress they’ve made so far on AnyFu, why Jason thinks Sweden smells like ice cream and his idea for yet another TV series, life lessons from the very wealthy and preschool’s huge payoff, an update on Justin’s outsourcing effort, Jason’s idea for compiling CoffeeScript to PHP, Justin’s micro-depression about Pluggio and an update on the numbers, ideas on picking a designer and a design for AnyFu, what makes a good finisher and why women make teams smarter.

136: TZ Discussion – Celebrigeek

Justin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:06:11 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Pluggio’s numbers and the results of a Pluggio product-market fit survey, Jason’s recent trip to Scandinavia, how Justin is upscaling his outsourcing, making Appignite command-line accessible, why AnyFu is worth pursuing and the summer show schedule.

135: TZ Discussion – Fear and Coding in Las Vegas (Part 2)

Justin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:00:19 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the events of Microconf 2011 during the drive back home to Los Angeles. This is part two of two episodes.

134: TZ Discussion – Fear and Coding in Las Vegas (Part 1)

Justin — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:20:26 +0000

Justin and Jason are on the road to Microconf 2011 in Las Vegas. This is part one of two episodes, part two will be released this coming weekend and is a recording of the trip back.

133: TZ Interview – Erica Douglas / Whoosh Traffic

Justin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:30:01 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Erica Douglas, founder of Whoosh Traffic, about how she built and sold her web hosting business for $1.1 million at the of age 26, why and how SEO works despite what you may have heard to the contrary and what her rules are for success in business.

132: TZ Discussion – Give Us Your Link Love

Justin — Sun, 29 May 2011 00:39:09 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss how Justin has managed to get out of debt so quickly, Jason’s Appignite generated issue reporter – Complainer, how Justin and Jason are teaming up to do AnyFu and some ideas on how the site might work, how Justin optimized Pluggio using APC byte caching, overriding include_once and increasing MySQL’s buffer pool, Justin’s idea on how to grow the show, how disappointed they are that the TV show The Event has been canceled, why Jason is jealous of Colby’s big summer, an update on Pluggio’s numbers and the integration with Totango, Jason’s idea for how Justin could increase Pluggio’s traffic, Jason’s idea for starting a non-profit to fight patent trolling, the new version of Uber’s God View and working with the Google Maps API, the speed and flexibility of JSONP and why ordering posts chronologically devalues them.

131: TZ Interview – Guy Nirpaz / Totango

Justin — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:47:00 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Guy Nirpaz, CEO and co-founder of Totango, an analytics SAAS offering that provides a deeper understanding of customer interactions. They discuss how they validated the idea and got started, how they provide value and where they’re headed in the future.

130: TZ Discussion – The Rapture Report

Justin — Sun, 22 May 2011 20:12:11 +0000

The impending Rapture and post Rapture looting, Bitcoin and it’s economic implications, Teamviewer and why the native OSX VNC server is so slow, getting useful feedback from listeners, Justin’s premature optimization and an update on his outsourcing experiment, the status of the Appignite beta, why points are no longer displayed for comments Hacker News why Jason thinks that they also shouldn’t be displayed for news items, the latest Pluggio numbers, Justin’s upcoming talk at MicroConf, the confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravity, Jason’s idea for doing a show segment called Gotcha that will cover cognitive biases, logical fallacies and social dilemmas, how little sleep you can get away with, how to increase your cognitive potential and five unexpected downsides of high intelligence.

129: TZ Interview – James Altucher / Almost Everything You Ever Believed is a Total Scam

Justin — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:03:55 +0000

Entrepreneur, investor and writer, James Altucher, is back for more and this time to talk about why you shouldn’t go to college, own a house, buy stocks or follow the news. He also talks about his new book, How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive, and how it’s easier now than ever to be the master of your own destiny as long as you’re willing to own it.

128: TZ Discussion – Jason Advice Fail

Justin — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:03:33 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Pluggio’s scalability challenges, password hashing problems in PHP and whether Appignite can generate itself, the danger of working on more than one problem at a time, Justin’s outrageous idea of erecting a pay-wall window for the podcast, how Justin is making a tech love connection, comparing Walmart to Microsoft, the power of commitment, an update on Jason’s TV show idea, Justin’s new apartment and Jason’s upcoming trip to Scandinavia, an update on Justin’s outsourcing experiment, what Justin is doing for Pluggio in terms of marketing, how to detect when a customer is about to drop their account, the cancellation of Stargate Universe, solving the memory leaks in the new Uber dispatch system and whether it’s hard to bootstrap a startup that makes $1,000 per month.

127: TZ Discussion – Going Beta

Justin — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:07:52 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Rob Walling’s upcoming MicroConf, what Justin has learned from his outsourcing experiment, an update on Pluggio and it’s revenue growth, why Justin uses Nozbe and how it’s made him more productive, the kickoff of the Appignite beta test and how Jason plans on conducting it, how Neville fell of the TZ bandwagon and some ideas on how to get back him back on, methods of implementing full text search in MySQL, Jason’s strategy for getting Jerry Pournelle and Elon Musk on the show, how Justin formatted his blog to work on mobile phones, Jason’s latest idea for a TV show and where Jason and Justin rank on Google.

126: TZ Interview – Keith Posehn / Zorz

Justin — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:20:13 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Keith Posehn, founder of Zorz, a performance marketing firm based out of San Diego, about how and why affiliate marketing can work for startups, his criteria for selecting clients and why he’s taken on Pluggio and why he’s launching a portfolio of startups through his mobile/social app think-tank AppZorz.

125: TZ Disussion – Go Big or Go Home!

Justin — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:07:27 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss some of the issues surrounding the UFO topic, Justin’s experiment in outsourcing development work for Pluggio, Rob Walling’s upcoming bootstrapping conference – MicroConf, alpha-testing Appignite and the challenge of generating an API and AJAX functionality, how Justin and Jason both got themselves into debt and how they’re getting themselves out, the impressive quality of the low budget science fiction movie Monsters, an update on Jason’s experiment on applying extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to his six-year old son, a better methodology for teaching mathematics, an update on Pluggio’s revenue growth and why Jason is impressed with Elon Musk.

124: TZ Interview – Leslie Kean / UFOs: Pilots, Generals and Public Officials Go on the Record

Justin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:15:55 +0000

Jason interviews Leslie Kean, investigative journalist and author of UFOs: Pilots, Generals and Public Officials Go on the Record, about her ten year effort to collect, validate and present the most credible evidence of the UFO phenomenon.

123: TZ Discussion – The Big Bounce

Justin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:51:08 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss how Jason’s son was recently diagnosed with meningitis, the consistent growth of Pluggio and why Justin is still depressed about it, the possibility and practicality of using Appignite to build a portfolio of web applications, Jason’s ideas on how to get started as a freelancer, the surprising effectiveness of SEO slugs and the various ways of implementing them, Jason’s idea for hosting a “startupathon” on StartupGuild, John C. Dvorak’s new X3 podcast, StartupGuild’s mirror image - FounderList, the IMF bombshell that China will overtake the US in terms of real GDP by 2016 and Jason’s observation that all startups (by definition) suffer from NIH.

122: TZ Interview – Ruben Gamez / Bidsketch

Justin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:55:15 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Ruben Gamez, solo founder of Bidsketch (proposal software), about the mistakes he made and the lessons he learned on his path to building a successful bootstrapped web application.

121: TZ Discussion – A Startup Doesn’t Live on Code Alone

Justin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:41:28 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss StartupGuild’s early growth and some ideas for it’s future, how Anonymous is targeting Sony executives and whether Jason should start a podcast on government corruption, genetic screening and designer babies, the cost of context switching when juggling multiple client projects, the types of problems for which Node.js is best suited, the stupidity of blaming the Microsoft stack for MySpace’s demise, what’s driving Pluggio’s recent growth trend and ideas on how to goose it even more, dynamically adjusting equity allocations in bootstrapped startups and an update on Jason’s experiment with applying extrinsic motivation.

120: TZ Interview – Lucas Carlson / PHP Fog

Justin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:43:53 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Lucas Carlson about how a Hacker News post turned into $1.8 million funding for PHP Fog.

119: TZ Discussion – The World’s Last jQuery Convert

Justin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:36:28 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the surprising success of StartupGuild and the software that’s powering it, why Jason is begrudgingly making the move to jQuery and why Justin hates REST, why Jason uses an HSA for his family’s health plan and Justin’s idea for offering a group health plan through StartupGuild, how the US is using socketpuppet software as a propaganda mechanism, how Justin is using jQuery Mobile for his new secret project, and whether or not TechZing is a “bootstrapping” show.

118: TZ Interview – Kevin O’Connor / FindTheBest

Justin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:00:48 +0000

Justin and Jason interview founder and former CEO of DoubleClick, Kevin O’Connor, about how he’s applying the lessons he learned as an engineer, entrepreneur and investor to his latest venture FindTheBest.

117: TZ Discussion – My Wife is Customer Zero

Justin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:19:32 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss StartupGuild and what Justin will need to do to make it work, the difference between game theory and game mechanics, Jason’s case study of applying extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to his six-year old son, how to increase your luck surface area via email, whether Google can reclaim any of it’s startup vitality with Larry Page as the CEO, the challenges of the super rich, Jason’s proposal for a startup word stop list, what’s up with Appignite and the latest Pluggio growth stats and upcoming guests Leslie Kean and Kevin O’Connor.

116: TZ Interview – Michael Sliwinsk / Nozbe

Justin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:00:21 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe – a web and mobile productivity application, about how he was able to bootstrap a “scratch your own itch” side project into a successful startup that employs a dozen people and services tens of thousands of paying customers.

115: TZ Disussion – The Aftermath

Justin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:47:39 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s blockbuster post about Entreporn, his prediction for the disintermediation of startup investment capital, an idea for how to synthesize microlending and angel investing into something called “microinvesting”, Pluggio’s resultant growth from funnel optimization, Justin’s desire to facilitate startup masterminding on a large scale, the movie Limitless and predicting outcomes via game theory, the book Prisoner’s Dilemma, and the possible discovery of Atlantis.

114: TZ Breaking News – Jay Roberts / Understanding Japan’s Nuclear Crisis

Justin — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:47:28 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Jason’s older brother Jay, a nuclear engineer in an previous lifetime, about the situation with Japan’s nuclear reactors, his experience with Japanese culture (his wife is Japanese and he spends half his time in Japan), his thoughts on Drupal and open source software, and why his social media startup is targeting the .gov market.

113: TZ Interview – Jeff Atwood / Stack Exchange

Justin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:41:41 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, about how he got started as a coder and his passion for programming and mentoring, how he and Joel Spolsky came up with the idea for Stack Overflow, his belief in free software and the Open ID initiative, the process of raising venture capital for Stack Exchange and his views of entrepreneurship, why he and Joel stopped doing the Stack Overflow podcast and whether they might start up again, and the hardest step when scaling a web app.

112: TZ Discussion – A Spaceship is Just an Airplane That Flies in Space

Justin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:58:42 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss one of Pluggio’s new features and Justin’s estimate of Pluggio’s growth rate, Twitter’s recent change to their developer ecosystem guidelines and the inherent risk of developing on the Twitter and Facebook platforms, the variety of SEO strategies available to startups, data driven vs visionary driven development, the status of Appignite and Jason’s development and product strategy, Jason’s upcoming blog post about Facebook, an awesome new DIY pulse laser, the 25 steps to installing and running Diaspora, the best approach for implementing an enumerated type in a database and Justin’s idea for generating a configuration file.

111: TZ Panel – Amy Hoy & Patrick McKenzie

Justin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:22:21 +0000

Justin & Jason talk to Amy Hoy of Freckle, and Patrick McKenzie of Bingo Card Creator about finding an audience and making money from it, what is SEO and how to do it, how important is design?, Jason’s inability to have a boss, and what Amy and Patrick are up to these days.

110: TZ Interview – James Altucher / An Unlikely Story

Justin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:34:29 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with guest James Altucher about his surprising experiences as a programmer, author, journalist, entrepreneur, trader, financial pundit, venture capitalist, angel investor and blogger.

109: TZ Discussion – SEO Bores Me

Justin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:27:29 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss getting into Forrst, why arguments tend to escalate when conducted via text, Justin’s struggle with his Man on a Wire post, the dynamics of CEO compensation, using form tokens to prevent CSRF attacks, the possibility of moving Pluggio to the enterprise, Justin’s surprising experience with Facebook adds, whether Jason should get an iPhone or an Android phone, spooky experiments that see the future, the impact of technology on political freedom, how Jason is teaching his 6-year old son HTML, server and client-side HTML rendering, migrating off Google App Engine and building a workflow engine in Appignite.

108: TZ Interview – Kyle Bragger / Forrst

Justin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:22:05 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Kyle Bragger, founder of the developer and design community Forrst, about what sparked the idea and how he launched it as a side project, how he selected the technology stack and how it’s evolved, how they’ve dealt with scaling and security, his thoughts on coding frameworks and development methodologies, why and how they created a user-linked karma system and his vision for Forrst’s future growth as an angel funded business.

107: TZ Discussion – How to Get Hacked

Justin — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:48 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the specific methods that Anonymous used to hack HBGary, how social media power tools like Pluggio could be used for ill in the wrong hands, more about when to abstract and where to store images, Jason’s idea for a two-way linked karma system, the skill required to articulate complex ideas, how Jason gave an ownership stake in Appignite to a previous investor, how Uber raised 11 million in VC funding, Justin’s idea for a “no investment” movement and the secrets of freemium pricing.

106: TZ Discussion – The Bad Version

Justin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:34:02 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss WordPress backup site BlogVault, the backlash on the Skype 5 UI and the possibility for a Skype competitor, the guerrilla tactics behind bootstrapping a startup, methods of sending email through code, Anonymous and the Wikileaks controversy, why Jason is irritated by Justin’s iPhone email trailer, securing images on a web server, why arguing is pointless, Justin’s eager vs Jason’s lazy approach to abstracting code, why Jason feels that switching to Subversion has been a waste of his time and understanding the motivation equation.

105: TZ Discussion – The Infinity Inbox

Justin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:48:25 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the concept of the Infinity Inbox, point inflation on Hacker News, the latest with Appignite and Pluggio, how to build authority on the web, how Jason took on too many projects and how he’s rectifying the situation, why Stargate Universe was canceled, why Justin was in and out of school as a kid and the cost-benefit analysis of learning a second language if your first language is English.

Stats We Spoke About In This Episode

Revenue:

Plans:

104: TZ Interview – Andrew Warner / Mixergy

Justin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:27:12 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Andrew Warner, host of the entrepreneur interview show Mixergy, about his experience with his first company, why he started his podcast, what he’s learned along the way and what his plans are for the future.

103: TZ Panel – Sébastien Arnaud & Samuel Clay

Justin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:18:45 +0000

Justin, Jason and panel guests Sébastien Arnaud and Samuel Clay discuss the status of Sébastien’s game AI framework – Cerebro, the AI behind News Blur, the News Blur business model, Open Calais, Game Center and how Titanium does not actually compile to native code, Coffee Script, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Node.js, Couch DB, Gabriel Weinberg’s recent PR coup, homeschooling and unschooling, the prospect of cloning a Woolly Mammoth and the latest in Justin’s dental adventures.

102: TZ Interview – Pioneer One / The No Budget TV Series

Justin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:45:09 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with the creators of the serial drama series Pioneer One, Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith, about how they were able to raise $6,000 in donations on Kickstarter to shoot a full-length pilot episode that was downloaded over a millions times on BitTorrent and won best drama of the 2010 New York Television Festival.

101: TZ Discussion – Right Voice, Wrong Face

Justin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:44:54 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss life with kids, the Calacanis interview, the mismatch between Jason’s voice and face, the status of Appignite and the inherit complexity of the problem, how Justin increased Pluggio’s customer conversion rates and why his localization effort was a waste of time, hypothese driven development, the top ten mistakes in behavior change, the lessons learned from TechCrunch’s bad review of MinuteBox, the story of how Jason sold his 300 ZX, how Reddit grew 230% in 2010, the lessons learned from Quora, seed stage valuations, Gabriel Wienberg‘s latest micro opportunity and startup advice from Tim Ferris.

100: TZ Interview – Jason Calacanis / The Godfather

Justin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:00:55 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with guest Jason Calacanis about his surprising relationship to TechZing, the This Week In web TV network and his unfortunate fallout with Leo Laporte, how he’s iterated and pivoted with Mahalo, the Jason Nation email list and why he stopped blogging, the LAUNCH Conference, the Open Angel Forum, Weblogs, Inc., delegating and growing companies, doing a startup while raising a family, the Beta Cast, martial arts, fat blogging and about a million other things.

99: TZ Panel – Gabriel Weinberg & Peter Cooper

Justin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:00:29 +0000

Justin, Jason and panel guests Peter Cooper and Gabriel Weinberg discuss the weaknesses of Google search and the opportunities that exist for upstart competitors, how to recognize the early signs of exponential growth, the importance of maintaining psychological resilience as a solo entrepreneur, dispelling the myth that ideas are worthless, the two primary habits of creative people, recent changes made to Pluggio’s user journey, pricing and signup process, Peter’s e-book project and the potential growth in e-book readers, the tools they use, the technologies they’re most excited about and what they wish they knew better.

98: TZ Interview – Lance Jones / Conversion Optimization

Justin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:05:38 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with conversion expert Lance Jones about the three fundamental questions that need to be asked to optimize conversion and the tools required to answer those questions.

97: TZ Discussion – Paralysis through Successalysis

Justin — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:40 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss streaming Netflix on the Netgear Roku XD and the LG BD 570, how the show Pioneer One was bootstrapped with only $6,000 in donations, refactoring the Uber code base and implementing a node.js solution, the value of building a presence on GitHub, optimizing the Pluggio customer funnel, A/B testing “merry christmas” vs “happy holidays”, relying on intuition vs testing, how you can succeed in spite of making mistakes, why it’s important to set short-term as well as long-term goals, Jason’s idea for a goal setting app, how success can paralyze future efforts, a list of potential blog posts and how Jason is learning Python to solve a series of boring problems.

96: TZ Interview – Sean K. Murphy / Startup Strategy

Justin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:00:09 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Sean K. Murphy, founder of SKMurphy, Inc, a Silicon Valley strategy consultancy for B2B software startups, about how tech entrepreneurship has evolved over the past thirty years, the most common mistakes made by entrepreneurs, the analytical framework he uses to understand and advise startups, the thinkers that have most influencing his understanding of the startup process, his criticisms of the product/market fit concept, his thoughts on business plans, why he started Bootstrappers Breakfast and his thoughts on how Jason should proceed with AppIgnite.

95: TZ Discussion – Lost in LA

Justin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:39:29 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why Justin signed up to Quora and how he landed Jason Calacanis as a guest, the audio equipment they recently purchased for the show, the reaction to the previous week’s discussion show and the need to respond to listener comments, multivariate testing and genetic algorithms, marketing ideas for Pluggio, how to raise your consulting rate, the feast and famine cycle of freelancing, the node.js work that Jason is doing for Uber and how to apply the concept of a developer driven culture and the Y Combinator model to film and television.

Executive Producer of TZ 95

Philippe Monnet. Founder & creator of http://www.MySkillsMap.com

94: TZ Interview – Amy Hoy / How to Build a Product Empire

Justin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:10 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Amy Hoy, founder of Freckle, publisher of the Javascript Performance Rocks! eBook, and creator of the 30×500 Product Launch online startup course, about how she was able to free herself from the shackles of full-time employment and escape the stress of the freelancing hamster wheel by developing her own online product empire.

93: TZ Discussion – Blowing Up on Hacker News

Justin — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:57:09 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s recent success on Hacker News and the talk he gave at the LA Ruby Meetup, why Justin has decided to give Pluggio a second go, the potential for a future show about analytics tools, why Justin avoids competition and why Jason is such a perfectionist, a La Critique of MinuteBox, the possibility of creating transcripts for the show, the power of MailChimp’s SocialPro and Jason’s launch strategy for AppIgnite.

Grand Patron of TZ 93

Donavon of hop.ie (and his daughter Molly)

hop.ie overview

We offer complete online promotion with attractive websites and effective online marketing.
Search engine optimised, easy to manage, and great value for money.

Molly sympathizing with Justin’s tooth pain…

92: TZ Interview – Ilya Lichtenstein / insight.io

Justin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:27:29 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Internet marketing expert and founder of insight.io Ilya Lichtenstein about how to find the best sources of paid traffic, the benefits of niche media buys, keyword and demographic targeting on Facebook, competitor bidding and re-targeting, optimizing the funnel, the importance of Analytics and number crunching, A/B and multivariate testing and what he learned by helping 150 startups with their marketing.

91: TZ Panel – Phil Aman & Gabriel Weinberg

Justin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:26:19 +0000

Justin, Jason and panel guests Phil Aman and Gabriel Weinberg, discuss A/B testing, advertising on Stumble Upon and Reddit, the possibility of an arsenic-based life-form, the best current science fiction shows, methods for improving productivity, why venture capitalists don’t like lifestyle businesses, balancing consulting with side projects, what can and can’t be learned from success stories, the role and impact of natural talent, an update on AppIgnite and a new tech podcast called BitBanter.

90: TZ Panel – Samuel Clay & Amir Salihefendic

Justin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:55:00 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Samuel Clay, developer of NewsBlur, and Amir Salihefendic, developer of Wedoist, Todist and Plurk, about how they came up with their product ideas, what technologies they used, how they designed the UIs, how they get press and attract customers, their take on competitors and the reasons behind their entrepreneurial endeavors.

89: TZ Interview – David Cancel / Performable

Justin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:00:37 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with guest David Cancel, founder and CEO of web analytics startup Performable, about the value of advanced analytics and the importance of testing assumptions, how they adjusted their pricing structure to find product market fit, the strategies they used to find their first customers and how they developed long-term relationships with them, how they launched without a product and why he loves building something out of nothing.

88: TZ Discussion – A Conversation That Delivers Results

Justin — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:41:24 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss a new show segment called “I Predict”, how Jason landed his freelance contracts, communication techniques that deliver results, the problems with OpenID, whether it’s better to bill monthly or annually, why Jason and Guyon wrote their own password hashing code, the strategy of using sock puppets on new community sites, the seven deadly sins that turn visitors into customers, how Justin falls in love with a new project every six months, the status of AppIgnite, getting into the habit of listening to podcasts, why you don’t need to be an expert to do a startup and the quote of the week.

87: TZ Interview – Luke Wroblewski / The User Interface Is The Product

Justin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:01:12 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with UI expert Luke Wroblewski about the evolving field of user interface design, why sign up forms must die, the challenges and advantages of designing for mobile devices, the essentials of good interface design and why the future is moving beyond web forms.

86: TZ Discussion – Like Deja Vu All Over Again

Justin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:01:44 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss how they lost a show due to a software malfunction, the challenge of running a larger company, how outsourcing services and infrastructure make it possible to scale a company more quickly, a high-quality and inexpensive freelance sys admin found by Justin, a talented designer recommended by Patrick McKenzie, startup ideas – The Recommended and AnyFu.com, Jason’s idea to generate a version of Iterations using AppIgnite, when it makes sense to release early and when it doesn’t, why perseverance is the most important attribute for an entrepreneur, whether it’s possible for Google and other large companies to expand their brand, Jason’s adjustment to using a Mac, TDD and when automated testing makes sense, the audacity of attempting to create a library or framework from scratch and why it’s important to try at least once.

85: TZ Discussion – High on Helium-3

Justin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:53:04 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the show’s numbers and its potential growth, the status of the donation drive, the possibility of doing a mimic show, Justin’s idea for a collaborative brainstorming app, overcoming domain name squatters, the success of Jason’s first three blog posts, blogging as a strategy for acquiring beta users, the importance of timing to a startup idea, the negative effects of overly long work sessions, why you should try every time, incentivizing listener’s to write iTunes reviews, writing an open letter about Helium-3, the Gustaf story, how Jason and Guyon wrote their own password hashing framework, writing tutorials as a strategy for becoming an authority on the web and Craig Ventor’s suggestion that NASA implement genetic engineering.

Special thanks goes to the executive producers of this show:

84: TZ Interview – Phil Aman / Renaissance Research Group

Justin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:19:27 +0000

Justin and Jason, along with guest co-host Phil Aman, turned what was intended to be a normal discussion show into a full-length story telling of Jason and Phil’s first startup – Renaissance Research Group, LLC.

83: TZ Interview – Jay Scheevel / Geological Challenges

Justin — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:25:41 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with veteran geologist Jay Scheevel about subduction zones, super quakes, tsunamis, peak oil, rare earth elements, mining helium-3 on the moon and thinking beyond the planet earth.

82: TZ Interview – Patrick Foley

Justin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:11:52 +0000

Justin and Jason interview guest Patrick Foley, host of the Startup Success Podcast, about his background as a software developer and his love of startups, why and how he got started as a podcaster, his role as a Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist, Jason Cohen’s new startup WP Engine, the benefits of Azure as a scalable web platform and the power of the story in conveying ideas and understanding.

81: TZ Panel – Pete Michaud & Rob Walling

Justin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:25:37 +0000

Justin and Jason host return guests and show favorites Pete Michaud and Rob Walling for an experimental panel episode. Some of the topics discussed include scaling via automation, finding and managing freelancers, building a content business vs a software business, Pete’s Goal Mapping web app, the obsession of a new project (The Madness), the relative strengths of blogging and podcasting, the format of Rob’s podcast Startups for the Rest of Us and the value of growing an audience.

80: TZ Discussion – Get That Monkey!

Justin — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:34:42 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the successful start of the donation drive, the show’s grand patron Ben Boyter and executive producer Felix Leong, Rob Walling and the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, why Justin moved Pluggio from Rackspace’s Cloudsites service to a VPS, password hashing and rainbow table attacks, a password strength meter in Javascript, a PHP password hashing framework, developing browser extensions and bookmarklets, the Startup Toolkit, how champions push past the pain, avoiding toxic relationships, the new TechStars book Do More Faster, diffing startup advice and Jason’s idea for doing a startup advice cage match series, TwitterCounter and the growth rate of Justin’s Twitter following, why Jason think’s PHP is to Ruby as SF is to LA and some startup naming suggestions.

79: TZ Interview – Patrick McKenzie / The Long Tail of Optimization

Justin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:00:55 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Patrick McKenzie, founder and developer of Bingo Card Creator, about how he grew a hacked together software project into a successful SaaS business through the expert application of website metrics and optimization.

78: TZ Discussion – The 360 Degree Resume

Justin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:21:20 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the BATF (big ass text file) method of storing information, building a beta email list for AppIgnite, Jason’s new blog Codus Operandi and Justin’s new blog JustinVincent.com, whether Twitter is worth the time and how to build a following when you’re not famous, why Swarm needs to be an everything app and not just an iPad app, why you should display your picture on your blog, using IndieGoGo for fundraising, whether outsourcing email or tweets is a bad thing, blog posts about TechZing by Udi Mosayev and Karan Vasudeva, a La Critique of CodeBoff.in, a status update on Pluggio and AppIgnite, pricing and marketing possibilities for AppIgnite and why you should start marketing the day you start coding.

77: TZ Discussion – This Week about Tech

Justin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:14:49 +0000

Justin and Jason (along with guest host Alex Gemmell), discuss how Justin and Alex first met and their early experiences using Agile methods, Alex’s work with Formula One racing, whether or not soft deletes are a bad idea, InnoDB vs MyISAM, taking advantage of micro opportunities, a flattering write-up about the show from Mark Pearl, Jason’s new blog Codus Operandi, Justin and Jason’s blogging challenge, Justin’s blog, web widgets for mobile devices, FOWA – the Future of Web Apps conference, how 20 popular websites looked when they launched, a little about the movie The Social Network, why Wesabe lost to Mint, how Twitter boosted its sign-ups by 29%, whether uploading a blog post to Scribd as a document could generate additional traffic, whether or not YCombinator is a waste of time, moving from Windows to OSX, and how Justin and Alex once attempted to do their own podcast.

76: TZ Interview – Thomas Thurston / Modeling Disruption

Justin — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:00:28 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Thomas Thurston of Growth Science International, LLC about his “disruptive innovation” model for predicting whether a startup will succeed or fail.

75: TZ Daily – End Of Days

Justin — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:38:05 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss their experience with the daily format, how a tweet from Jason Calacanis spiked the subscriber numbers, implementing recurring payments using PayPal reference transactions, using Forkly to facilitate a viral launch, the secret to hitting the Hacker News front page and why you need to build a brand.

74: TZ Daily – Fooled By Randomness

Justin — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:51 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why the daily format isn’t working out, the Javascript bookmarklet Kick Ass, the genius and tragedy of Patrick McKenzie, logging-in with Facebook Connect and the Texas sharpshooters fallacy.

73: TZ Daily – Going Fibonacci

Justin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:57:09 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the fascinating properties and strange coincidences of Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio and MailChimp’s experience with the freemium pricing model.

72: TZ Daily – Intellectual Hipsterism

Justin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:05:31 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss feedback on the show’s shorter length, meta-contrarianism and countersignaling, the Cascadia subduction zone and Peak Oil.