TechZing is an informal bi-weekly chat show aimed at entreprenures and hackers interested in creating their own web app startup. The show is both educational (with practical advice) and conversational.
122: TZ Interview - Ruben Gamez / Bidsketch
Justin and Jason interview Ruben Gamez, solo founder of Bidsketch, 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 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.
120: TZ Interview - Lucas Carlson / PHP Fog
Justin and Jason interview Lucas Carlson, about how a hacker news post turned into $1.8 million funding for PHP Fog.
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, 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.
118: TZ Interview - Kevin O'Connor / FindTheBest
Justin and Jason interview founder and former CEO of DoubleClick, Kevin O'Connor, about how he's applying the lessons he learned as an engineer, entrepreneur and investor to his latest venture FindTheBest.
117: TZ Discussion - My Wife is Customer Zero
Justin and Jason discuss StartupGuild and what Justin will need to do to make it work, the difference between game theory and game mechanics, Jason's case study of applying extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to his six-year old son, how to increase your luck surface area via email, whether Google can reclaim any of it's startup vitality with Larry Page as the CEO, the challenges of the super rich, Jason's proposal for a startup word stop list, what's up with Appignite and the latest Pluggio growth stats and upcoming guests Leslie Kean and Kevin O'Connor.
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.
115: TZ Disussion - The Aftermath
Justin and Jason discuss Justin's blockbuster post about Entreporn, his prediction for the disintermediation of startup investment capital, an idea for how to synthesize microlending and angel investing into something called "microinvesting", Pluggio's resultant growth from funnel optimization, Justin's desire to facilitate startup masterminding on a large scale, the movie Limitless and predicting outcomes via game theory, the book Prisoner's Dilemma, and the possible discovery of Atlantis.
114: TZ Breaking News - Jay Roberts / Understanding Japan's Nuclear Crisis
Justin and Jason interview Jason's older brother Jay, a nuclear engineer in an previous lifetime, about the situation with Japan's nuclear reactors, his experience with Japanese culture (his wife is Japanese and he spends half his time in Japan), his thoughts on Drupal and open source software, and why his social media startup is targeting the .gov market.
113: TZ Interview - Jeff Atwood / Stack Exchange
Justin and Jason interview Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, about how he got started as a coder and his passion for programming and mentoring, how he and Joel Spolsky came up with the idea for Stack Overflow, his belief in free software and the Open ID initiative, the process of raising venture capital for Stack Exchange and his views of entrepreneurship, why he and Joel stopped doing the Stack Overflow podcast and whether they might start up again, and the hardest step when scaling a web app.
112: TZ Discussion - A Spaceship is Just an Airplane That Flies in Space
Justin and Jason discuss one of Pluggio's new features and Justin's estimate of Pluggio's growth rate, Twitter's recent change to their developer ecosystem guidelines and the inherent risk of developing on the Twitter and Facebook platforms, the variety of SEO strategies available to startups, data driven vs visionary driven development, the status of Appignite and Jason's development and product strategy, Jason's upcoming blog post about Facebook, an awesome new DIY pulse laser, the 25 steps to installing and running Diaspora, the best approach for implementing an enumerated type in a database and Justin's idea for generating a configuration file.
111: TZ Panel - Amy Hoy & Patrick McKenzie
Justin & Jason talk to Amy Hoy of Freckle, and Patrick McKenzie of Bingo Card Creator about finding an audience and making money from it, what is SEO and how to do it, how important is design?, Jason's inability to have a boss, and what Amy and Patrick are up to these days.
110: TZ Interview - James Altucher / An Unlikely Story
Justin and Jason speak with guest James Altucher about his surprising experiences as a programmer, author, journalist, entrepreneur, trader, financial pundit, venture capitalist, angel investor and blogger.
109: TZ Discussion - SEO Bores Me
Justin and Jason discuss getting into Forrst, why arguments tend to escalate when conducted via text, Justin's struggle with his Man on a Wire post, the dynamics of CEO compensation, using form tokens to prevent CSRF attacks, the possibility of moving Pluggio to the enterprise, Justin's surprising experience with Facebook adds, whether Jason should get an iPhone or an Android phone, spooky experiments that see the future, the impact of technology on political freedom, how Jason is teaching his 6-year old son HTML, server and client-side HTML rendering, migrating off Google App Engine and building a workflow engine in Appignite.
108: TZ Interview - Kyle Bragger / Forrst
Justin and Jason talk to Kyle Bragger, founder of the developer and design community Forrst, about what sparked the idea and how he launched it as a side project, how he selected the technology stack and how it's evolved, how they've dealt with scaling and security, his thoughts on coding frameworks and development methodologies, why and how they created a user-linked karma system and his vision for Forrst's future growth as an angel funded business.