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Special: Discover A New Form Of Local Discovery With Evlo

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In this special episode we interview Nick Larson, the CEO of Evlo. Evlo is a commerce and discovery app (iOS only for now) that helps users explore local home furnishings without all the driving. Initially launching in San Francisco, the Evlo team wants to change how you shop for products to decorate your home.

Usually it involves searching online for unique shops. Then driving to each one to see what they have. If you’re really diligent, you’ll only hit a couple stores, or it’ll takes months (if not years!) to fully explore all your options. Who has time for that?

Instead, Evlo let’s you explore furniture and art near you right on your phone. You can easily see what’s available (including large pictures and often the price) before driving to the local seller to “touch it” before buying. It’s a good idea that brings a technological solution to a pain point millions of people share.

During the show, we talk with Nick about their app and how it was built. We probe him on the process of co-founding a startup, covering topics from forming a team, getting legal support and pursuing capital investors. He told us about the trials of being a founder and the perks (hint: his answer is “a great team”).

Finally we wrap up with a quick exploration of his favorite browser and more. You know, the important stuff.

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Special: Rod Miner Shares How He Kickstarted His Music Album

Rod Miner

In this special episode we chat with Rod Miner of Winnowing Fire on his journey of taking an idea of a christian music album and turning it into a reality using Kickstarter. His story sheds light on the ups and downs you feel while pursuing your dream.

We also chat about his social media evolution and the details of actually getting your song listed with all the online music directories. It’s a fun story we think you’ll enjoy.

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Special: Ian McLean From Statpedia Interview

Ian McLean joined us to share a little bit about Statpedia, his startup. Matthew found him on Kickstarter, and thought it was a cool enough idea to learn more.

Statpedia’s mission is to be a central crowdsourced repository for statistical findings. This includes raw datasets, finished charts, articles analyzing data, and much more. In addition to being a repository, Statpedia is building a search engine with beautiful layouts to display the results. Ian’s dream is for anyone to be able share cool stats they’ve created/discovered and easily find stats to help their research.

Statpedia’s team of 4 is looking to launch in December and build up their repository from there. You can learn more, including watch a demo, on their Kickstarter Page.

Thanks Ian for chatting with us. We’ll be rooting for you!

 

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Special: Bizodo Takes The Paper Work Out Of Paperwork

A couple weeks ago Matthew & I talked about a company called Bizodo. I got all excited when they were described as “taking the paper work out of paperwork”. Cool! But then I visited their website and it talked about building online forms. Less cool…

I expressed my dissatisfaction & Matthew defended them. We moved on.

But Bizodo didn’t.

Jonathon Ende, founder of Bizodo contacted us offering to show off the new and cool things they’re working on.

Awesome!

So, check out our discussion about Bizodo once we learned more about what they’re up to. We promised to wait until now to share so that when you, trusty listener, go visit there site, you’ll see what we’re talking about.

Make sure to listen until the end when Matthew & I give our unique ratings of Bizodo.

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Oh yeah, here’s a screen shot of what the new tool looks like:

 

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There Is No Time For E3

It’s E3! In honor of E3 we have a very special episode for you. We invited two industry experts to give us their thoughts and opinions on the five presentations. We covered Microsoft and Halo 4, EA being better with connect, Nike+, Univision, SmartGlass, Internet Explorer, and Black Ops 2. We talk about EA, the UFC, and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. We briefly touch on Ubisoft. A gush about Sony and Beyond, AllStars, Assassin’s Creed, their new Wonderbook: Book of Spells, and The Last of Us. We finish up with Nintendo, who didn’t have enough time to tell us about the new Wii U, or Mario, or Pikmin, or the 3DS, or Lego City.

Thanks to Rog and Dave for joining our show. You can find them online at:

Dave: @dutch726 on Twitter, and dutch726 Xbox Live

Roger: @robofong on Twitter, and ltfong on Xbox Live

 

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Special: Wahooly Interview

Hey Everyone!

Today we have a special episode for you. We interview the co-founder of Wahooly, Dana Severson. We talk about how Wahooly started, what it does and where he sees it going. Exciting!

Wahooly is a start-up helping other start-ups by providing customers in exchange for a little equity. By gaining a few thousand customers right away, start-ups can reach a sustainable customer tipping point faster and get feedback right away to further improve their product. Also, customers, get the opportunity to get on the ground floor of new start-ups.

Their business sounds pretty exciting and it’s easy to see why they’ve been generating a bunch of buzz lately. Thanks Dana for spending an hour on the phone with us discussing what Wahooly is up to.

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Here are some other articles we found talking about Wahooly:
Inc
Gigaom
Mashable

 

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