📖Company of one: why staying small is the next big thing for business

authors
Jarvis, Paul
year
2019
  • p.5 scaling up requires you to spend more time actually managing executors and less time executing yourself

  • growth in quality, not quantity

  • p.10 traits: resilience, autonomy, speed, and simplicity

  • p.11-12 resilience: acceptance of reality, purpose, the ability to adapt

  • p.15 you need high proficiency for autonomy. Mind-set of a sponge can help first

  • p.17-18 companies of one need skill in sales, marketing, project management, and customer retention. they have to be generalist

  • p.27 startup genome project: 74 percents of startups die because they scale up too quickly

  • p.28 Kauffman foundation: 86% of companies that succeed long-term did not take vc money