110: TZ Interview - James Altucher / An Unlikely Story

Justin and Jason speak with guest James Altucher …

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…

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…

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.

107: TZ Discussion - How to Get Hacked

Justin and Jason discuss the specific methods tha…

Justin and Jason discuss the specific methods that Anonymous used to hack HBGary, how social media power tools like Pluggio could be used for ill in the wrong hands, more about when to abstract and where to store images, Jason's idea for a two-way linked karma system, the skill required to articulate complex ideas, how Jason gave an ownership stake in Appignite to a previous investor, how Uber raised 11 million in VC funding, Justin's idea for a "no investment" movement and the secrets of freemium pricing.

106: TZ Discussion - The Bad Version

Justin and Jason discuss WordPress backup site Bl…

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.

105: TZ Discussion - The Infinity Inbox

Justin and Jason discuss the concept of the Infin…

Justin and Jason discuss the concept of the Infinity Inbox, point inflation on Hacker News, the latest with Appignite and Pluggio, how to build authority on the web, how Jason took on too many projects and how he's rectifying the situation, why Stargate Universe was canceled, why Justin was in and out of school as a kid and the cost-benefit analysis of learning a second language if your first language is English.

104: TZ Interview - Andrew Warner / Mixergy

Justin and Jason interview Andrew Warner, host of…

Justin and Jason interview Andrew Warner, host of the entrepreneur interview show Mixergy, about his experience with his first company, why he started his podcast, what he's learned along the way and what his plans are for the future.

103: TZ Panel – Sébastien Arnaud & Samuel Clay

Justin, Jason and panel guests Sébastien Arnaud a…

Justin, Jason and panel guests Sébastien Arnaud and Samuel Clay discuss the status of Sébastien's game AI framework - Cerebro, the AI behind News Blur, the News Blur business model, Open Calais, Game Center and how Titanium does not actually compile to native code, Coffee Script, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Node.js, Couch DB, Gabriel Weinberg's recent PR coup, homeschooling and unschooling, the prospect of cloning a Woolly Mammoth and the latest in Justin's dental adventures.

102: TZ Interview - Pioneer One / The No Budget TV Show

Justin and Jason speak with the creators of the s…

Justin and Jason speak with the creators of the serial drama series Pioneer One, Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith, about how they were able to raise $6,000 in donations on Kickstarter to shoot a full-length pilot episode that was downloaded over a millions times on BitTorrent and won best drama of the 2010 New York Television Festival.

101: TZ Discussion - Right Voice, Wrong Face

Justin and Jason discuss life with kids, the Cala…

Justin and Jason discuss life with kids, the Calacanis interview, the mismatch between Jason's voice and face, the status of Appignite and the inherit complexity of the problem, how Justin increased Pluggio's customer conversion rates and why his localization effort was a waste of time, hypothese driven development, the top ten mistakes in behavior change, the lessons learned from TechCrunch's bad review of MinuteBox, the story of how Jason sold his 300 ZX, how Reddit grew 230% in 2010, the lessons learned from Quora, seed stage valuations, Gabriel Wienberg's latest micro opportunity and startup advice from Tim Ferris.
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