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155: TZ Interview – Mathew Klein / Collective2

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....
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147: TZ Interview – Stavros Korokithakis / Historious

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

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...
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128: TZ Discussion – Jason Advice Fail

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...
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125: TZ Disussion – Go Big or Go Home!

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...
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122: TZ Interview – Ruben Gamez / Bidsketch

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

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

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,...
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116: TZ Interview – Michael Sliwinsk / Nozbe

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....
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106: TZ Discussion – The Bad Version

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...
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