TechZing

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

Justin and Jason discuss the lastest with Pluggio and the power of the discount, the prospect of using Kickstarter to finance cancelled TV shows, 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 your startup name in a cafe, Craig Venter’s synthetic organisms, the Yale scientist wh...

Jason speaks with Wayne Graham, author of Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development about the process, technical issues and tradeoffs of developing games for the Facebook platform. Following are some links discussed in the show: Open Source Game Engines: - CAAT: http://hyperandroid.github.com/CAAT/ - Crafty: http://craftyjs.com/ - LimeJS: http://www.limejs.com/ - MelonJS: http://www.melonjs.org/ Co...

Justin and Jason talk about the latest with Pluggio, the dangers of starting with a free service and the Google nuclear winter, the irregularities with the Facebook IPO, CashBase and the personal finance market, the effect of Elon Musk's success with SpaceX and what sets him apart, the power of balancing relentless optimism with brutal self-awareness, the against all odds story of Jimmy Conrad, ho...

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's upcoming move back to LA, an update on Appignite, avoiding depression while not running a $1B company, the new Pluggio UI and why some existing customers don't like it, Company 52's new focus, Jason's thoughts on Steve Job's biography, the new interview format, how Jason bought some Facebook shares, Mesh01's upcoming design competition for a "luck surface area" t-...

Jason speaks with James Thomas, Director of Research for Headlands Technologies, LLC, about the business of high-frequency trading.

Justin and Jason discuss their experiences at MicroConf and the Rock Rock Hotel, Justin's new focus on being focused, the Atlantic's article about Justin's Yelp nightmare, why Justin believes Kickstarter is the future of seed funding and should be called "kickstrapping", why Jason and Guyon are probably going to kill their HackerEvents project, how Edwardo Saverin and Derek Sivers are renouncing t...

Justin and Jason talk with Jason Cohen about his latest startup, WP Engine.

Description: Justin and Jason talk with application security expert, Matt Konda, about how to harden web applications against common attacks, tools that can help locate vulnerabilities and his new security startup, Jemurai.

Justin's upcoming post about the Yelp review filtering system, the new version of Pluggio, looking forward to MicroConf, Freeman Dyson and his global warming heresy, a La Critique of RootBuzz, more thoughts on simulating the zombie apocalypse, island economics and the danger of extreme wealth inequality, TBTF banks and thoughts on the MF Global fiasco, Matt Tiabbi's coverage of Wall Street's endem...

Justin and Jason discuss why Justin is moving back to LA, how he was swindled by a moving company and why the Yelp review system is partly to blame, how people are able to rationalize bad behavior by the creation of false narratives, how the US, Israel and China are influencing social networks with the help of tools like persona management platforms, why Justin thinks Breaking Bad is the best dram...

Justin & Jason talk in depth with Gabriel Weinberg about how he raised $3m venture capital for DuckDuckGo.

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, vaccinat...

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.

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 ove...

Justin and Jason talk to William Saito author of "An Unprogrammed Life: Adventures of an Incurable Entrepreneur"

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's drive to Savannah, the recent iTunes review surge, the success of the first AnyFu transaction and the lessons learned, whether or not AnyFu qualifies as a "Lean Startup", the new TZ comment policy, what happened to _why, why Jason is excited about Colby's renewed interest in soccer, different types of memories, whether Fringe is going to be renewed for a fifth sea...

Justin and Jason discuss how Rackspace went down for 7 hours and took Pluggio down with it, some ideas for implementing a robust failover solution, the latest on AnyFu and some feedback from the first two users, why Justin is moving to Savannah, GA and what makes him think he's actually going to get work done on the drive there, what James Dyson wants to do to improve the Brittish economy, how Jas...

Justin and Jason speak with Baron Schwartz, Chief Performance Architect at Percona and lead author of the O'Reilly book, High Performance MySQL.

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 donati...

Justin and Jason talk to Paul Paetz CEO of Innovative Disruption

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.

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

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...

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