{"id":211,"date":"2010-05-31T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T03:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2023-04-09T21:36:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T02:36:58","slug":"techzing-45-taylor-norrish-printfriendly-and-govit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/page\/211\/techzing-45-taylor-norrish-printfriendly-and-govit","title":{"rendered":"Techzing 45 &#8211; Taylor Norrish \/ PrintFriendly and GovIt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3739\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-211-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-045.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-045.mp3\">http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-045.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-045.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/?powerpress_pinw=211-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techzinglive.com\/mp3\/techzing-045.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"techzing-045.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"itpc:\/\/techzinglive.com\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" title=\"Subscribe on iTunes\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribeonandroid.com\/techzinglive.com\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_android\" title=\"Subscribe on Android\" rel=\"nofollow\">Android<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>Justin and Jason interview Tayor Norrish about\u00a0his startup experiences  with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PrintFriendly<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GovIt<\/a>.  Specifically, they discuss how he came up with the idea for  PrintFriendly and how he found a developer, the algorithm used  by\u00a0PrintFriendly\u00a0to 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, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elance<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odesk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ODesk<\/a>, targeting a niche market vs a horizontal  market, the theory of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cargo_cult\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cargo  cult<\/a>, using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/siteopt\/splash?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Optimizer<\/a> 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&#8217;s recently announced change of strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin and Jason interview Tayor Norrish about\u00a0his startup experiences with\u00a0PrintFriendly and GovIt. Specifically, they discuss how he came up with the idea for PrintFriendly and how he found a developer, the algorithm used by\u00a0PrintFriendly\u00a0to parse and tag relevant content in HTML pages, how GovIt got started and why (to his regret) he declined the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[241,238,240,133,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techzinglive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}