In this episode we bring on Nate Abele, CTO of Radify.io to talk about how technology is shaping small businesses.

Recorded just before the election - thought happily with almost nil election talk - we disuss a wide range of topics including:

What Nate does at Radify

Automation

The meaning of work

Technology in general

Future of banking and small business lending

Monetary Policy and Stock Buy Backs

Though he says he'll regret it, Matt and Nate say they're excited for Trump to shake things up

Legal Tax Havens

Escaping to Estonia

Working Abroad

The meaning of government in its most base sense

Reasoning from first principals

Processes for more productive work without distraction

How each Dan, Matt and Nate like to work without wasting time

Some apps we like:

Flowstate
Evernote
Timing App

NOTE: Dan decided to record the podcast in a really loud location outside of his office and contributed to most of the poor audio quality.

On this episode we bring on Cody Brown, the founder of virtual reality experience company, IRL(In Real Life). We talk about the state of the VR industry, and the different directions it can go. Cody and Dan both have first hand experience producing professional VR experiences, and they bring a wealth of insight to the table for an industry that's still in it's infancy.

Twitter: CodyBrown

IRL: irl-vr.com

Inside the secretive augmented reality company, Magic Leap.

Dan's work on The Exorcist on Fox.

The scariest thing Matt has seen in the last few months, Edward Mordake, the man with a face on the back of his head. Though it may be a hoax.

The case against reailty. What you see in daily life might not be close to it's true form, and it doesn't have to be.

Dan and Matt reconnect after a long hiatus. A lot has happened in both their careers. Dan has a movie in theaters March 2017, Matt's company got acquired.

Look forward to new episodes with exciting guests in the next few weeks!

Belko Experiment Gets a 2017 IMDB Release Date

RJMetrics acquired by Magento

George Reefah - Paparazzi

Enemy

Friends and Family Film Feedback Platform

Here's a lost episode from April 2015! We brought in Genevieve Dreizen, a project manager at NYC company Gramercy Tech. (http://www.gramercytech.com/) We talk about her work in tech as well her side gig as a renegade marriage officiant.

On Episode 14, Dan and Matt speak with Juliana Reyes about her role as a writer at Technically Philly and delve into some of the recent financial scandals and one-upmanship than has rocked the tech scene.

We mostly discuss a recent article by Juliana that depicts the sudden demise of the reputation management company Brand.com. We discuss how so many articles related to any industry are about meteoric successes or immediate crashes, without covering the day-to-day aspects of real working life. Juliana also describes her experience writing for Technical.ly Philly.

Lastly, we speak about how different industries can only last so long in a certain geographic area before their locality hinders their ultimate growth.

Some links:

http://badassdigest.com/2015/03/02/from-hollywood-to-homeless-the-writer-of-jason-x-and-drive-angry-on-screenw/

http://technical.ly/philly/2015/03/11/what-happened-brand-com/

http://technical.ly/philly/author/julianareyes/

http://johnaugust.com/2011/no-hollywood-for-him

@juliana_f_reyes

On Episode 13, Dan and Matt catch up on their business and professional lives and then delve head first into the exciting and somewhat scary world of Virtual Reality content.

Some interesting VR-related links:

Grantland Virtual Reality has Arrived

HTC Vive Headset Cost

Sony Project Morpheus

In Episode 12 tech entrepreneur and social media maven Espree Devora joins Matt and Dan to talk about the Los Angeles tech scene a.k.a "Silicon Beach," management and outsourcing, digital nomads and lessons learned from various projects.

More about Espree:

Espree Devora is known as “the Girl who Gets it Done” She has provided seminars in interactive content and social media to many corporations and universities including Disney, CBS, International Association of Skateboard Companies, USC Executive MBA and Georgetown MBA. She co-produced the panel “WHERE’S WALDO? Finding Social Influencers & Decreasing Your Costs” which brought in over 11,500 viewers in under an hour via live stream, making it the highest viewed independent panel at the time. She started her first online company at the start of college and fell in love with the start up culture.

Espree's Site

Espree's LinkedIn

Her Secret Hobby

Espree's Twitter

In Episode 11 Russell Buckley joins the crew to talk about how he helps start-ups raise capital, futurism, the sharing economy, virtual reality & jobs of the coming decades.

The guys manage to stumble across several topics including how London has emerged as Europe's answer to silicon valley, how technology is creating new jobs rather than killing them, how jobs in modern medicine and the military will be most overhauled in the next ten years and how cell phones in 25 years will be the size of red blood cells.

Oh, and we also talk about 2045 or as Russell calls it, "the year computers take over."

More about Russell:

*Russell Buckley is a UK Government Advisor helping UK startups raise investment and a leading practitioner, speaker and thinker about mobile technology. He is also a previous Global Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association, an active Angel Investor (via Ballpark Ventures), and holds numerous non-executive positions in mobile technology companies.

Russell’s previous role was with mobile advertising startup, AdMob. He learned about AdMob soon after its launch and joined as its first employee in 2006, with the remit of launching AdMob into the EMEA market. Four years later, AdMob was sold to Google for $750m.*

On Episode 10, Rocket Scientist Paul Giuliano joins Dan and Matt to talk about what he does to keep our satellites safe, the future of interstellar travel, jet propulsion the privatization of the space industry.

More about Paul:

I'm currently an engineer with Boeing Satellite Systems based out of El Segundo at the largest satellite factory in the world. Previously, I was a researcher at various institutions on plasma physics as applied to space propulsion, studying at USC and Michigan, where I received my PhD on the topic, as well as summer fellowships at Princeton and Jet Propulsion Lab.

When I'm not working on these extremely complex problems on half-billion-dollar systems, I enjoy reading and teaching -- I'm involved with a few science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) outreach programs at local elementary, middle, and high school and I try to advise and consult in every way possible, both internally and externally. The internal consulting is proprietary but with the external consulting I try to keep fun and creative with an emphasis on understanding of the fundamentals. I think my first serious scientific consulting work with media in mind was for Dan's "For All Mankind" short -- there's been a few since then and this year I'll be rolling out a more focused effort.

On Episode 9, entrepreneur Nick Eubanks joins the show to talk selling ebooks, investments, digital marketing & the future of search engine optimization. And Traffic Cones.

Some more info on Nick:

Nick manages digital strategy for W.L. Snook & Associates, Inc., a digital asset holding company with a focus on Ecommerce and Software. He is also a founding partner at I'm From The Future, and an active investor and advisor to online businesses including SchoolSupplies.com, YourListen, Sports Pick Predictions, and others. Nick is the owner of top-ranked SEO Blog, SEONick.net and the creator of Master Keyword Research in 7 Days.

Some links from this episode. Mostly various companies we referenced and/or operations that Nick is involved in:

Traffic Safety Store
I'm From The Future
SEO Leads
Factor Media
Nick's Blog
YourListen:
Sports Pick Predictions
My latest product (Master Keyword Research in 7 Days)
Nathan Barry's site:
Nathan Barry's forum:

On Episode 8 we are joined by Mitch Goldich, a social media producer for Sports Illustrated, to discuss how social media has changed the way games are covered, how sports narratives are shaped and developed, Mitch's take on the sports landscape in 2015 and whether or not the Cubs will actually win the World Series this year as predicted in Back To The Future II.

More about Mitch:

He is a social media producer for Sports Illustrated and has also had articles published by the New York Times, Huffington Post, NBC Olympics and Baseball Prospectus.

He graduated from Lehigh University in 2009 and earned a master's in journalism from Northwestern in 2014.

Rivalry Earns Its PInstripes

@mitchgoldich