Writer and entrepreneur
Paul Jarvis is a web designer, writer, and entrepreneur who has spent over twenty years working for himself, with past clients including Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz. He is the author of Company of One, which challenges the assumption that growth is always the goal and argues for the benefits of staying small.
by Paul Jarvis
Jarvis challenges the assumption that growth is always good. Some businesses are better kept small - profitable, autonomous, and aligned with the founder's actual life goals.
The books Paul Jarvis references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Jason Fried
Fried argues that most business conventions, offices, meetings, long-term plans, are wasteful distractions. Build less, embrace constraints, and launch something real instead of planning something perfect.
by Michael E. Gerber
Gerber argues most small businesses fail because technicians become owners without learning to build systems. The solution: work on your business, not in it.
by Eric Ries
Ries argues most startups fail by building products nobody wants. The solution: treat your business as an experiment, measure validated learning, and pivot before you run out of cash.
Who Paul draws from, and who draws from Paul — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.