Distilled

We just can't get enough of the spirit and energy of the Tampa Bay entrepreneurship community. With events like Ignite Tampa, selling more tickets than any other Ignite event in history, it's easy to see how so many people have fallen in love with this town. Look in the right places, and you'll find a vast community of like-minded people whose united purpose is to help everyone win. We <3 Tampa Bay!

This episode is a perfect example of average conversations that happen at the First Wave Venture Center. Just a couple experts sitting around talking shop about product development, agile publishing strategy, and the "quick-to-pivot" approach of the lean startup movement; with all our usual cowboy commentary. And by the way, did we mention we had a jaw-dropping 200Mbps fiber hookup? Invest in infrastructure, and the world benefits. Be the rising tide!

Aubrey shares a horror story about nearly 24hrs of downtime on a high volume app. We hope it will help you gain some perspective in your everyday work stress. We do the heavy lifting so you don't have to. That includes everything from staying up all night looking after your app to scraping through passive crowd-sourced data to glean something about aggregate sentiment. By understanding sentiment, we can better design the options in the choose-your-own-adventure game that is your product experience.

Aubrey and Justin invite us to explore the magnificent possibilities of a computer made of biological material assembled within a living cell. Discussion investigates a novel weight loss mechanism that uses a wasteful computing process to burn biological resources in target areas within the body. Scary, yet fascinating, we've only scratched the surface of what's possible with this intriguing technology.

We open with an on-going discussion of location services, specifically the limitations of geofencing on iOS devices and some clever workarounds. Eventually, we evolve into a conversation about the genetics of a startup company and the parallels between agile product development and genetic evolution. This one's a little out there, and for us, that's saying something.

In this extended episode, Aubrey and Justin explore the psychology of entrepreneurship. We're wired backwards, refusing to accept failure as an end to itself. We achieve where others give up. Sometimes, that makes us seem arrogant. Imagine how we'd be if we hadn't failed so much before we succeeded.

The first live show, recorded at the First Wave Venture Center open house. Content is unedited and published as-is. This week's topics center around web services to control appliances and eventually everything from your mobile device. Non-stop laughs in this episode, including a surprise visit from Mitch Neff. I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.

In this episode, Aubrey and Justin discuss geo-fencing - the use of location services to detect region boundary crossing events - to prompt user action. When this type of prompt is used effectively, it provides a subtle guide to help the user achieve a task they want/need to do without being intrusive. When abused, it leaves the user feeling annoyed and disappointed. Just as we form impressions of our machines, they cultivate an understanding of us during the conversation. Voice control illustrates this effect elegantly with its uncanny ability to understand our intent, despite our imperfect expression.

Never a dull moment at the FirstWave Venture Center. Seems like every day we're dreaming up something magnificent, something that captivates people's attention in unexpected ways. This week's example is Urinal Games. Yes, it's probably what you're thinking.

Aubrey and Justin are joined by Mitch Neff and Darin Lewis for this animated and hilarious exposé of an emerging phenomenon - technology that enables businesses to address new and potentially unregulated markets. Whether it be ride-sharing services like Lyft and Sidecar or kitchen-sharing services like Guestaurant, these business dance on the edge of government regulation.

Note: This episode is extra rowdy. Hold on tight!