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Minimum Viable Product
The MVP or Minimum Viable Product
“It’s not necessarily minimal nor a product nor viable!”
MVP is not a perfectly descriptive term
“An experiment is a product” (From TLS book)
Smallest increment of work that will test a hypothesis
What forms can it take?
Google form/survey
LinkedIn groups
Email to ask for a 20 minute phone call
Kickstarter
Product Hunt
Just a demo (Dropbox)
Mockup (paper prototype)
Concierge
A static web site
A video
A simple free wordpress blog
Pricing scheme
Concierge MVP
Problem description
Solution description
Actual Prototype
The key is that it is
MINIUM!
MVP is always always related to a hypothesis (or more than one)
Who and where do you show your MVP?
Product Reviews of other products might give you names
Other feedback fora
Think about: where do they congregate?
Who are
they
?
Find a way to observe them
Discussion: Does MVP mean that quality is not important?
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Pilot Project
Welcome!
Lean Startup
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Working on Teams
MVP
Guest Lecture: Michael Skok
Pilot Project Conclusion
Term Project: Startup
Welcome to Term Projects!
Build Measure Learn
Project Planning
The Pivot
The Engine of Growth
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Testing Techniques
Term Project: Product
Product Market Fit
Jeffrey Beir: Metrics
Business Models
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Andy Payne: Startup Finance
Intellectual Property
Term Project: Business
Finance for Geeks
Founding a company
Real World Survival Kit
Management and Leadership
Dulcie Madden: Startup Teams
Last day converstation
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