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316: TZ Discussion – Don’t Call It a Comeback

Justin — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:13:58 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the prerequisite viewer that Jason’s building for Math Academy, Rob Walling’s Tiny Seed, Chamath Palihapitiya’s advice to grow slow and to grow real, why Jason’s latest hire on Upwork didn’t work out, Justin’s Nugget webinar and why he’s no longer going to employ squeeze marketing, how Jason is back writing code again and loving it, Math Academy’s high-school curriculum and overall program, late bloomers, and nature vs. nurture as it relates to mathematics and mathematical talent.

315: TZ Discussion – Two Weeks Late

Justin — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 19:49:02 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s tendency to argue with himself about code, the strategy board game that Jason and Colby are building together which we saw mentioned in recent Blackout Bingo reviews, the JS 13K Game challenge, Jason’s advice on how to find inexpensive talent on Upwork and how Justin might include these ideas on Nugget, how parents think about after-school coding programs, the Hacker News post asking startup employees how much they made on an exit, the funded vs. the bootstrapped startup model and Jason’s plans for Math Academy, the latest on Operation Superhero and the unreasonable effectiveness of strength training.

295: TZ Interview – Robin Warren / Corrello

Justin — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:43:09 +0000

Justin talks to Robin Warren about his bootstrapped startup Corrello, a dashboard for agile teams using Trello.

263: TZ Discussion – From Zero to Hero

Justin — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:37:12 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s upcoming trip to Mexico, their new low-sugar / high-protein diet and HIIT training regime, the TechZing Summit, how Justin has STILL not received hisSoylent, Jason’s interview on Bootstrapped with Kids, how Jason found a personal instructor to teach him electrical engineering, the latest on Jason’s math card game – Battle Math, why his iPhone project got rejected by the App Store, his recent visit to the Mill Valley Code Club and what’s happening with Empath, the latest with Disco and why Justin likes SaltStack, why most people will initially mock and dismiss audacious goals, but later be inspired by them, and how a season of “Daddy Ball” has lit a fire in Colby and why that’s a good thing.

216: TZ Discussion – Warp Speed

Justin — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:54:03 +0000

Justin and Jason talk about how Jason’s mail was stolen, some of the limitations with Phone Gap, the engineering salaries of Silicon Valley startups, the ridiculous cost of housing, Jason’s idea for gamifying personal finance, incentivizing kids with cash, how NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Physics Lab is working on the possibility of a warp drive, the new matter created by the Large Hadron Collider, how an advanced alien race (if they exist) might not be all that interested in communicating with us, Jason’s Freakonomics and Singularity Summit binge, the future of 3D printing, the meaning of life without money, Micho Kaku’s vision of the world in 2030 and what he envisioned a phone would do and look like, why Jason still hasn’t purchased a backup system, how Brendan Dunn is making five figures a month off a bootstrapped product, whether or not to do interviews, a new approach to recruiting AnyFu experts, how to explain functions to kids and the possibility of using a combination of both a challenge system and personal projects in Catalyst, Jason’s idea of how to explain advanced algorithms without using mathematical notation, Jason’s bizarre knee problem and finally how a provision in the House-passed NDAA bill would overturn the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 prohibiting the U.S. government from using propaganda against it’s own citizens.

194: TZ Discussion – Respect the Buffer Zone

Justin — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:49:25 +0000

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 two back-to-back interviews on synthetic biology, the upcoming interview with machine learning expert and RoboCup champion Peter Stone, Jason’s plan for teaching electronics to his son Colby and his strategy for bootstrapping a math and science academy, Google+ vs Twitter, how the EFF is taking up the patent fight with Defend Innovation, the cognitive overload of having a lot of browser tabs open, and Jason’s surprising connections to Jeff Dean, John Conway, Sarah Brown and Amy Jo Johnson.

190: TZ Interview – Ted Pitts & Harry Hollander / Moraware

Justin — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:00:22 +0000

Justin talks to Ted Pitts & Harry Hollander about how they bootstrapped Moraware to more than $1m yearly revenue.

178: TZ Discussion – The Hacker News Slap

Justin — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:32:12 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss balancing time when bootstrapping, the categories and costs of context switching, strategies for recruiting AnyFu experts, the status of the AnyFu payout system, what was learned from the first five AnyFu sessions, the DNA of the perfect AnyFu expert, whether or not we’re in a startup bubble, when it makes sense to bootstrap and when it makes sense to raise money, vaccinating yourself against customer feedback, Helmut’s document signing demo, the Hacker News slap, why Jason believes the “donate to charity” business model won’t work for AnyFu, the importance of keeping your message simple, the PhantomJS web stack, why writing business plans are a waste of time for web and mobile startups, the new Node.js profiler, how Justin got into business with Uri Geller, the story of MashAPI, and the scam of automatic traffic ticketing.

177: TZ Interview – Dan Southworth / Divergence

Justin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:27:44 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with actor / producer / stunt-man, Dan Southworth about life as the Quantum Ranger and how he bootstrapped the sci-fi / action web series Divergence.

176: TZ Discussion – Why Favors Don’t Scale

Justin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:43:45 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss some big donations from the Australian contingent, the story of Spent – an expense tracking iPhone app, the importance of momentum, how Ben Boyter got a raise, Justin’s new life in Savannah, building an NDA signing service, the customer development being done for AnyFu, whether life is easier as a funded or bootstrapped startup, the maven versus the consultant, quality over quantity, drafting an LLC agreement, traveling to MicroConf, developing a payout system, bringing Preezo back from the dead and why Jason and Justin love their accountant.

Super Producer $177 – Peter Goldsmith and Tim Cinel & (Spent iOS App)
Grand Patron $100 – David Walz
Executive Producer $50 – Ben Boyter

Thank you very much for your kind donations!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TechZing 59 – Jasonism

Justin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:42:53 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why GIT (the distributed version control system) is cool, the progress of Swarm and the Swarm AI – Cerebro, ideas for the TechZing newsletter, creating wildcard accounts in gmail, an impromptu La Critique of coder.io, the death of Google Wave, an overview of the audio technology used for the production of the podcast, Rob Walling’s book on bootstrapping, why Jason refuses to use blogging software for the new AppIgnite blog, how Rails was under development for a year before it was released, reasons to seek funding or not, when F*** U money can be less valuable than F*** U influence, how to increase your luck surface area, the quote of the week, how your personality defines your path, exploration vs exploitation, the use of Flex and Ajax in myVBO, how regular exercise is good for your brain and why Justin is going caveman, how new ideas can kill a startup, playing small and going big, Jason’s Javascript grid and his Javascript library – j(ason)Query, some responses to listener comments and the guiding principles behind AppIgnite.

TechZing 56 – Rob Walling & The Micropreneur Academy

Justin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:16:56 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Rob Walling, founder of the Micropreneur Academy, author of Start Small, Stay Small and co-host of the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us, about how to dramatically increase your odds of success when bootstrapping a microISV. Some of the topics discussed include the love of making things and the drive to create, how to pick a product niche and why not to create a horizontal offering, why the freemium model doesn’t work for bootstrapping startups and whether Justin should discontinue free accounts for Pluggio, the difficulty of competing against venture backed startups, how to create a landing page and build an email list, possible marketing and pricing strategies for AppIgnite, Google’s SEO guidelines, why software as a service is a better business than software as a product, how to buy websites and build a portfolio of web investments, outliers and why it’s better not to try to emulate them, the time, effort and talent required to create a personal platform (ala 37 signals and Joel Spolsky) and why email lists are so valuable.

Techzing 31 – Marco Polo

Justin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:53:05 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss their lost episode and the future direction of the show, making 100 users happy, tracking active and paying users on TweetMiner, how word of mouth isn’t viral, whether Justin should try to bootstrap his secret project (you know – the one that isn’t TweetMiner), Jason’s upcoming iPhone app project, metrics of programmer productivity, how quality is fractal, how “scratch your own itch” and minimal viable product are fundamentally incompatible approaches to product development and how the quality of a product is limited by the taste of whomever is running the company.

techZING! 19 – Radical Transparency

Justin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:07:59 +0000

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 breaking the Not-Invented-Here directive.

techZING! 12 – Smarter Than Your Average Bear

Justin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:55:28 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Jason Cohen about how he was able to bootstrap Smart Bear Software to multiple millions in revenue and a 50% profit margin without using debt or venture capital.