The Art of Product

93: Company of One with Paul Jarvis

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After a QuickTime error eradicated Paul Jarvis’s conversation with Ben and Derrick for an Art of Product episode, he’s back with an update on his recently published book, Company of One.

Should Paul strike while the iron is hot? Despite the book’s success and being encouraged to write another one, Paul wants to take a necessary break before proposing a new book idea.

Today’s Topics Include:

  • Legally Binding Thumbs-up Emoji: How Paul sold rights for book to be in 13 languages
  • Break between Building: Frustration of figuring things out, replaced with hammock thinking and relaxation
  • Paul’s writing process fills fountain of ideas; ready to do a book on digital privacy
  • Slack Support Group: Help yourself and others
  • Level Failure Leads to Filtering Idea Criteria: Shouldn’t be mission-critical product; require more than a few decision makers; and native apps shouldn’t be a minimum requirement
  • Company of One: Doesn’t necessarily refer to one person, but mindset
  • Balance between technology you know and learning curve for something you don’t
  • Software as a Service (SaaS) Business: Scale up or stay small?
  • Derrick describes Company of One as what he aspires toward, but is open to possibility of co-founders
  • Nothing Lasts Forever: Question growth, not stagnation
  • Seek and scale support, especially when using third-party software
  • Drumroll, Please: Ben announced plans for public launch of Tuple in August 2019

    • Links and resources:

    Paul Jarvis

    Company of One

    Company of One (Co1) Academy

    Company of One Podcast

    Fathom

    Paul Jarvis on Twitter

    Paul Jarvis’s WPComplete Plugin

    Ingenx

    The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

    Slack

    Screenhero

    Rob Walling

    Drip

    Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea

    DigitalOcean

    Heroku

    Ruby on Rails

    Phoenix

    Superhuman

    Hacker News

    Art of Product Podcast Episode 91: Feeling Superhuman with Rahul Vohra

    Art of Product on Twitter

    Derrick Reimer Website

    Derrick Reimer on Twitter

    Ben Orenstein Website

    Ben Orenstein on Twitter

    Tuple

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    Level Retrospective

    Level Manifesto

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