198: TZ Discussion – The Mystery Boom

Justin and Jason discuss the psychological impact of getting out of debt, the Gabriel Method and the Paleo Diet, the mystery boom, whether the freemium model will work for Pluggio, Justin's entrepreneurial ups and downs, whether Pluggio is fundable, the pros and cons of red ocean and blue ocean strategies, the first episode...
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197: TZ Interview – Peter Stone / Robot Soccer and Multiagent Learning

Jason talks with Peter Stone, director of the Learning Agents Research Group at UT Austin, whose team UT Austin Villa won both the  standard platform league and the 3D simulation league of the RoboCup 2012 competition. They discuss why robot soccer is a good motivating application domain for machine learning, how the RoboCup competition...
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196: TZ Interview – Omri Drory / Genome Compiler

Jason interviews Omri Drory, founder and CEO of Genome Compiler Corporation, about how they're aiming to build the AutoCAD of synthetic biology....
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195: TZ Discussion – What’s Your Enthusiasm Half-Life?

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's move to Pasadena, whether you can fake being a nice guy, how John Humphrey reserved the domain AnyFoo.com and donated it to J&J, thoughts on the Pluggio pitch deck, an update on AnyFu, selling the Preezo codebase, the Udacity experiment, the apology to Elon Musk, the books A...
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194: TZ Discussion – Respect the Buffer Zone

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's upcoming move back to LA, how Justin got his wife Georgie to do the voice over for some Pluggio instructional videos, why Justin is putting Pluggio on AngelList, Guyon's recent visit to LA, why Jason is holding office hours with Pat Maddox at Coloft, why there are going to be...
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193: TZ Interview – Cathal Garvey / Biohacking

Jason interviews Cathal Garvey about the exciting new field of synthetic biology, its amateur cousin DIYbio and his new startup, Glowbiotics. Show Links: NYT's Article about Cathal and Biohacking Online Gene Design GENtle (Open Source Genetic Management Suite) DIYbio Mailing List DIY Biosynthesis of Insulin and Thyroxine Hacking Your Own Fluorescent Yoghurt...
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192: TZ Discussion – Trillions and Trillions of Stars

Justin and Jason discuss how Jason missed Rob Walling's text message, the hiccups and challenges of the Pluggio mass emailing and why Pluggio is probably competing with HootSuite despite Justin being in denial about it, moving the AnyFu payment system to Balanced, why Ben Reyes needs to settle on a name, why Justin...
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191: TZ Discussion – The Space that Fills the Vacuum

Justin and Jason discuss why Iron Man is the ultimate geek super hero, the positive user feedback about Justin's recent solo interview and Jason's concept for a math and science academy, interfacing .NET with a Win32 DLL, the latest progress on AnyFu, Jason's HN comment that received 75 up-votes and no replies, rbutr -...
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190: TZ Interview – Ted Pitts & Harry Hollander / Moraware

Justin talks to Ted Pitts & Harry Hollander about how they bootstrapped Moraware to more than $1m yearly revenue....
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189: TZ Discussion – Synthesizing the Future

Justin and Jason discuss the lastest with Pluggio and the power of the discount, the prospect of using Kickstarter to finance cancelled TV shows, regulated offshore betting sites, political campaigns and even for paying off the national debt, why Justin should hurry up and write the definitive "kickstrapping" blog post, why you shouldn't discuss...
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