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Kent Fenwick (@kentf) and Nick Shim (@nim342) talk about their side projects, their day jobs, technology, the future, philosophy, 90s action movies, and much much more.Podcasts
Response: Consumer Centric Car Buying App
Published: May 31, 2021, 11 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds
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Episode 48: Pitch: Consumer Centric Car Buying App
Published: May 30, 2021, 11 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 11 seconds
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Episode 47: Season 2 Premiere: Let The Past Die
Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 13 seconds
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Episode 46: On to the next one
Published: Jan. 10, 2020, noonDuration: 27 seconds
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Episode 45: Getting the Book Published and It's a Business Not a Side Project. Goals for 2019.
Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 11:45 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 31 seconds
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Episode 44: Nick's Book is Done, Finishing off Details, Setting Goals for 2019
Published: Jan. 2, 2019, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 59 seconds
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43: A new app idea, and practical tips for finding your dream job
Published: Dec. 12, 2018, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes
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Kent's new career, imposter syndrome v3, dating vs. marrying companies, wolves vs. dogs, building your public persona
Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 29 seconds
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Episode 41: Essays, SEO, Project Updates, The New Rap, The Coddling Of The American Mind and more
Published: Nov. 26, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 26 seconds
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Episode 40: Screen time, Project Update, and Ramblings of a Dystopian Future
Published: Nov. 5, 2018, 3 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 3 seconds
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Episode 39: Tales from the gig economy
Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 19 seconds
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Episode 38: Life at a VC Backed Startup
Published: Aug. 31, 2018, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 1 second
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Episode 37: Starting an e-commerce store. Deep dive + Tips & Tricks.
Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 37 seconds
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Episode 36: The Other Side of "Hey I have an app idea!"
Published: Aug. 10, 2018, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 53 seconds
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Episode 35: Feedback From My Editor
Published: Aug. 2, 2018, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 43 seconds
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Episode 34: How much would you pay for Google?
Published: July 24, 2018, 3 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 1 second
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Episode 33: Project Update + Goals + WWDC
Published: June 24, 2018, 11 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 29 seconds
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Episode 32: The Dip
Published: June 6, 2018, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 46 seconds
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Episode 31: Running an e-commerce store, cash flow, debt and financing, buying products, managing suppliers, calculating margins and more... A deep retail dive.
Published: May 28, 2018, 11 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 51 seconds
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Episode 30: Is Google sentient? How do we build side projects in the age of strong AI? Plus some WWDC predictions.
Published: May 21, 2018, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 40 seconds
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Episode 29: Products we love | Fahrenheit Coffee
Published: May 13, 2018, 4 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 20 seconds
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Episode 28: Let's Jam | A Social Podcasting App
Published: May 8, 2018, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 41 seconds
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Episode 27: Product vs. Marketing
Published: April 30, 2018, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 55 seconds
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Episode 26: Family-Work Balance
Published: April 19, 2018, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 11 seconds
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Episode 25: Q&A - Productivity Tools, outsourcing tech, letting someone go.
Published: April 14, 2018, midnightDuration: 1 hour 5 minutes 7 seconds
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Episode 24: How morals and ethics affects startups, building ethics into your side project, and deleting Facebook
Published: April 2, 2018, 8:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 51 seconds
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Episode 23: Hero worship, self-doubt and winning
Published: March 26, 2018, noonDuration: 1 hour 48 minutes 22 seconds
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Episode 22: Pros and Cons of Building Side Projects with a Team or Going Solo
Published: March 18, 2018, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 46 seconds
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Episode 21: Filming a Kickstarter Video, How to Deal with a Drop in Shopify Orders - Project Update #3
Published: March 7, 2018, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 49 seconds
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Episode 20: Lessons Learned Pitching Sponsors
Published: March 3, 2018, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 25 seconds
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Episode 19: Getting Sponsors
Published: Feb. 22, 2018, noonDuration: 1 hour 17 minutes 14 seconds
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Episode 18: Book Club
Published: Feb. 16, 2018, noonDuration: 2 hours 7 minutes 37 seconds
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Episode 17: State of our Unions
Published: Feb. 3, 2018, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 56 seconds
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Episode 16: Self-driving roulette
Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 45 seconds
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Episode 15: Intellectual Summer Camp
Published: Jan. 12, 2018, 5:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 19 seconds
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Episode 14: A time for selling
Published: Jan. 4, 2018, 12:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 23 seconds
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Episode 13: Crypto
Published: Dec. 14, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes
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Episode 12: OK Google, open the pod bay doors
Published: Dec. 8, 2017, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 20 seconds
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Episode 11: Imposter Syndrome
Published: Dec. 3, 2017, 2 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 37 seconds
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Episode 10: What Would Jay-Z Do?
Published: Nov. 26, 2017, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 59 seconds
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Episode 9: Pivot
Published: Nov. 15, 2017, noonDuration: 1 hour 49 minutes 5 seconds
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Episode 8: Programming System 1
Published: Nov. 9, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 23 seconds
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Episode 7: Rationing your Wonderbread
Published: Nov. 3, 2017, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 53 seconds
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Episode 6: Welcome to the Rock
Published: Oct. 25, 2017, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 44 seconds
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Episode 5: Waiting for that Casper money
Published: Oct. 20, 2017, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 57 seconds
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Episode 4: Productive epiphanies
Published: Oct. 11, 2017, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 48 seconds
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Episode 3: Searching for breadth vs. depth
Published: Oct. 4, 2017, 12:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 50 seconds
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Episode 2: That time I went to Taylor
Published: Sept. 27, 2017, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 37 seconds
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Episode 1: Everyone has a price...
Published: Sept. 20, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 26 seconds
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