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techZING! 25 – Minimalism
Justin and Jason discuss the cost of a poor customer service experience, TweetMiner on Hacker News, using PayPal's reference transaction ID for repeat transactions, Jason's cross platform messaging library, making code open source, test driven development and exploratory programming, weekend productivity, learning calculus in 2 1/2 hours, minimalism in life...
Listen » techZING! 24 – In the Face of Uncertainty
Justin and Jason discuss working with the Twitter API, high-throughput messaging, setting up wildcard sub-domains, hiring for startups, the advantage of virtual teams, whether you learn more from failure or success, the problems of focusing on competitors, how to prioritize feature development and making progress through a series of small...
Listen » techZING! 23 – The Puppet Master
Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner's stats, the pros and cons of compensation transparency, how generating revenue eases the capital raising process, the costs and potential benefits of being cloned, dividing time between product development and marketing, losing revenue due to poor feature segmentation, the importance of actually doing something, one...
Listen » techZING! 22 – Nagging Your Way to Riches
Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner's growth and conversion ratio, the status of Jason's stealth project, achieving financial independence by creating recurring revenue involving a bitcoin casino guide, the satisfaction derived from doing a startup, preventing negative feedback from derailing your efforts, the fundamental tenants of startup success, writing SQL adaptors...
Listen » techZING! 21 – The Accidental Cron Job
Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner's revenue growth, raising money using customer development, how to keep from burning out, tweaks for improving productivity, building a startup based on solving your own problem, when to use the MyISAM and InnoDB database engines, storing schema-less data using JSON, the Cambrian explosion of distributed...
Listen » techZING! 20 – How You Like Me Now?
Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner's pricing model and revenue
projections, having users vote on new features and UI changes, the
increased productivity provided by larger monitors and smaller teams,
the downsides of radical transparency and the possibility of
eventually growing out of it, Justin's email doppelganger, hooking
into the PayPal API and when to roll...
Listen » techZING! 19 – Radical Transparency
Justin and Jason discuss Justin's progress with TweetMiner, the pros
and cons of radical transparency, Jason's still secret side project,
bootstrapping vs raising funds, how the seed round is the new series
A, doing a startup with a partner versus going solo, Justin's medical
mystery and why Jason believes that ground breaking innovation often
require...
Listen » techZING! 17 – Charge Early, Release Often
Justin and Jason discuss Justin's TweetMiner project and
Jason's experience building the local bacon website. They also talk
about Jason's experience participating in this year's TechCrunch 50
competition....
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