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131 TZ Interview - Guy Nirpaz / Totango May 26, 2011

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Justin and Jason interview Guy Nirpaz, CEO and co-founder of Totango, an analytics SAAS offering that provides a deeper understanding of customer interactions. They discuss how they validated the idea and got started, how they provide value and where they're headed in the future.

130: TZ Discussion - The Rapture Report May 21, 2011

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The impending Rapture and post Rapture looting, Bitcoin and it's economic implications, Teamviewer and why the native OSX VNC server is so slow, getting useful feedback from listeners, Justin's premature optimization and an update on his outsourcing experiment, the status of the Appignite beta, why points are no longer displayed for comments Hacker News why Jason thinks that they also shouldn't be displayed for news items, the latest Pluggio numbers, Justin's upcoming talk at MicroConf, the confirmation of Einstein's theory of gravity, Jason's idea for doing a show segment called Gotcha that will cover cognitive biases, logical fallacies and social dilemmas, how little sleep you can get away with, how to increase your cognitive potential and five unexpected downsides of high intelligence.

129: TZ Interview - James Altucher / Almost Everything You Ever Believed is a Total Scam May 19, 2011

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Entrepreneur, investor and writer, James Altucher, is back for more and this time to talk about why you shouldn't go to college, own a house, buy stocks or follow the news. He also talks about his new book, How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive, and how it's easier now than ever to be the master of your own destiny as long as you're willing to own it.

128: TZ Discussion - Jason Advice Fail May 16, 2011

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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 May 09, 2011

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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 May 04, 2011

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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! May 02, 2011

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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 Apr 29, 2011

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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 Apr 26, 2011

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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 Apr 21, 2011

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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.

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