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.
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 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.
127: TZ Discussion - Going Beta
Justin and Jason discuss Rob Walling's upcoming MicroConf, what Justin has learned from his outsourcing experiment, an update on Pluggio and it's revenue growth, why Justin uses Nozbe and how it's made him more productive, the kickoff of the Appignite beta test and how Jason plans on conducting it, how Neville fell of the TZ bandwagon and some ideas on how to get back him back on, methods of implementing full text search in MySQL, Jason's strategy for getting Jerry Pournelle and Elon Musk on the show, how Justin formatted his blog to work on mobile phones, Jason's latest idea for a TV show and where Jason and Justin rank on Google.
126: TZ Interview - Keith Posehn / Zorz
Justin and Jason speak with Keith Posehn, founder of Zorz, a performance marketing firm based out of San Diego, about how and why affiliate marketing can work for startups, his criteria for selecting clients and why he's taken on Pluggio and why he's launching a portfolio of startups through his mobile/social app think-tank AppZorz.
125: TZ Disucssion - 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 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.
124: TZ Interview - Leslie Kean / UFOs: Pilots, Generals and Public Officials Go on the Record
Jason interviews Leslie Kean, investigative journalist and author of UFOs: Pilots, Generals and Public Officials Go on the Record, about her ten year effort to collect, validate and present the most credible evidence of the UFO phenomenon.
123: TZ Discussion - The Big Bounce
Justin and Jason discuss how Jason's son was recently diagnosed with meningitis, the consistent growth of Pluggio and why Justin is still depressed about it, the possibility and practicality of using Appignite to build a portfolio of web applications, Jason's ideas on how to get started as a freelancer, the surprising effectiveness of SEO slugs and various ways to implement them, Jason's idea for hosting a "startupathon" on StartupGuild, John C. Dvorak's new X3 podcast, StartupGuild's mirror image FounderList, the IMF bombshell that China will overtake the US in terms of real GDP by 2016 and Jason's observation that all startups (by definition) suffer from NIH.
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.