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Justin and Jason interview Tayor Norrish about\u00a0his startup experiences with\u00a0 PrintFriendly<\/a> and 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, Elance<\/a> and ODesk<\/a>, targeting a niche market vs a horizontal market, the theory of the cargo cult<\/a>, using 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’s recently announced change of strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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