https://techzinglive.com If you're a hacker, you'll probably like our show ;) Mon, 10 Apr 2023 02:36:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 TechZing is an informal chat show hosted by Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts. We release two shows per week. Midweek Interview Show – We interview people that we find interesting such as John C Dvorak, Peldi from Balsamiq, Pete Michaud etc. Weekend Discussion Show – We have a ‘no agenda’ style discussion ruminating on tech, startups and other HN-like topics, we’ll even on occasion take a risk and venture into the unknown. We also talk about the progression of our businesses Pluggio & AppIgnite. Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts jv@jvmultimedia.com jv@jvmultimedia.com (Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts) JV Multimedia If you're a hacker you'll probably like our show ;) https://storage.pinecast.net/podcasts/covers/1ed93ec8-742b-4655-9cac-c86b274620f6/new-cover-odea.jpg https://techzinglive.com https://techzinglive.com/page/211/techzing-45-taylor-norrish-printfriendly-and-govit https://techzinglive.com/page/211/techzing-45-taylor-norrish-printfriendly-and-govit#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:41:02 +0000 http://techzinglive.com/?p=211 Justin and Jason interview Tayor Norrish about his startup experiences with PrintFriendly and GovIt. Specifically, they discuss how he came up with the idea for PrintFriendly and how he found a developer, the algorithm used by PrintFriendly to parse and tag relevant content in HTML pages, how GovIt got started and why (to his regret) he declined the first two and only acquisition offers, the importance of finding a partner with complementary skills, the relative cost of various web technologies, comparing the cost of Java and Ruby developers, the importance of experience vs passion when hiring a developer, the difficulty of finding good designers and developers, Elance and ODesk, targeting a niche market vs a horizontal market, the theory of the cargo cult, using Google Optimizer for A/B and nth degree testing, starting a service based on the Farmville concept of building something and watching it grow, brainstorming a pricing strategy for Swarm and Digg’s recently announced change of strategy.

]]> https://techzinglive.com/page/211/techzing-45-taylor-norrish-printfriendly-and-govit/feed 15 Justin and Jason interview Tayor Norrish about his startup experiences with PrintFriendly and GovIt. Specifically, they discuss how he came up with the idea for PrintFriendly and how he found a developer, the algorithm used by PrintFriendly to parse an... Justin and Jason interview Tayor Norrish about his startup experiences with PrintFriendly and GovIt. Specifically, they discuss how he came up with the idea for PrintFriendly and how he found a developer, the algorithm used by PrintFriendly to parse and tag relevant content in HTML pages, how GovIt got started and why (to his regret) he declined the first […] Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts 1:25:23 https://techzinglive.com/page/158/techzing-29-but-i-digress https://techzinglive.com/page/158/techzing-29-but-i-digress#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:58:39 +0000 http://techzinglive.com/?p=158 Justin and Jason discuss whether TweetMiner is stagnating, attributes of single founders, the importance of consistency, the energy feedback loop between startups and users, building a custom text search engine, the theory of the planimal (it turns out that it’s real after all), sleep hacks, when to fix bugs and when to add features, the pain of fixing cross-browser CSS bugs, technical superstitions, talent versus persistence and determination, annoying marketing speak (user journey, passion and reaching out), ten rules for web startups and Justin’s new startup idea.

]]> https://techzinglive.com/page/158/techzing-29-but-i-digress/feed 11 Justin and Jason discuss whether TweetMiner is stagnating, attributes of single founders, the importance of consistency, the energy feedback loop between startups and users, building a custom text search engine, Justin and Jason discuss whether TweetMiner is stagnating, attributes of single founders, the importance of consistency, the energy feedback loop between startups and users, building a custom text search engine, the theory of the planimal (it turns out that it’s real after all), sleep hacks, when to fix bugs and when to add features, the […] Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts 1:26:54