93: Company of One with Paul Jarvis

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

Level

Level Retrospective

Level Manifesto