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 (https://pjrvs.com/) Company of One (https://ofone.co/) Company of One (Co1) Academy (https://ofone.co/learn/) Company of One Podcast (https://ofone.co/company-of-one-podcast/) Fathom (https://usefathom.com/) Paul Jarvis on Twitter (  / pjrvs  ) Paul Jarvis’s WPComplete Plugin (https://wpcomplete.co/) Ingenx (https://www.ingenxtec.com/) The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (https://ajjacobs.com/books/the-year-o...) Slack (https://slack.com/) Screenhero (https://screenhero.com/) Rob Walling (https://robwalling.com/) Drip (https://www.drip.com/) Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea (https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/...) DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/) Heroku (https://www.heroku.com/) Ruby on Rails (https://rubyonrails.org/) Phoenix (https://phoenixframework.org/) Superhuman (https://superhuman.com/) Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/) Art of Product Podcast Episode 91: Feeling Superhuman with Rahul Vohra (https://artofproductpodcast.com/episo...) Art of Product on Twitter (  / artofproductpod  ) Derrick Reimer (http://www.derrickreimer.com) Website Derrick Reimer on Twitter (  / derrickreimer  ) Ben Orenstein (http://www.benorenstein.com/) Website Ben Orenstein on Twitter (https://twitter.com/r00k?lang=en) Tuple (https://tuple.app/) Level (https://level.app/) Level Retrospective (https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/...) Level Manifesto (https://level.app/manifesto)