When I advise entrepreneurs to build their own MVP many ask me, "what language should I use." Since technology is rarely a business risk for startups, I advise entrepreneurs to make the decision based on community instead. Pick a popular technology based on the availability of people who can help you when you get stuck. ...

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Via: Kevin Dewalt Written by Kevin Dewalt Startup founder(4x), investor(~20 deals), advisor(a lot). H

Language - be it Objective C, Chinese, Ruby, or Klingon - isn't something you learn through study, it's something you learn through use. The best way to learn how to build your startup MVP is to start building your startup MVP. ...

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Via: Kevin Dewalt Written by Kevin Dewalt Startup founder(4x), investor(~20 deals), advisor(a lot). H

A lot of startups rightly aim to release a minimum viable product (MVP) as their first initiative. The goal of an MVP helps a team rally around a concrete product design that they can get out the door in a limited amount of time. And it's every startup's hope that once the MVP is released, early adopters will flock to it eagerly and tell their more mainstream friends by the millions. ...

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Via: Mark Hendrickson Written by Mark Hendrickson

The developer behind Appbot - a service for app developers who want their app store reviews and features in their email inbox - has posted the lessons he learned when building his minimum viable product. There is nothing revolutionary here, but it is a good list of things to do. This is my summary: ...

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Via: The Equity Kicker Written by Nic Brisbourne I'm a VC in London

Common sense tells us to wait to release our product until it works perfectly; however, in the startup world, nothing could be further from the truth. Too many startups fail because they launch too slowly. The ideal product launch is a product that is just good enough; the ideal product launch is a minimum viable product (MVP). ...

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Via: The Blog Of Jun Loayza Written by Jun Loayza Founder of @TourWoo, the easiest way to book a tour online.

In my previous post I explained the three reasons why we need to be fast in launching an MVP. Now I want to explain how I did that with my own MVP experiment. ...

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Via: Business of Software Blog Written by Joca Torres Locaweb product development and product management. And open

What do I mean by Agile 1.0? Agile 1.0 is all about production, i.e. shipping features in an effective manner. In Agile 1.0, the stakeholder is called the "customer" (which is crazy when you think about it). In Agile 1.0, dev is too often an order-taker, not a strategic partner in the business. ...

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Via: Giff Constable Written by Giff Constable MD at Neo in New York; maker, designer, entrepreneur, and ag

The longer you take to put your product in front of real users, the longer it will take for you get some revenue and the longer you'll have to invest from your own money or investor's money. Below is a typical return on investment chart. While you don't launch your product and don't have revenue, all you'll have are costs, i.e., you'll be in the investment phase of the curve below. ...

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Via: Business of Software Blog

In the pursuit of a minimum viable product (MVP), we've seen that it's important to evaluate early the critical components that will differentiate an offer from competition and make a product truly viable. ...

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Via: Harvard Business Review

In the kelp beds off the coast of Southern California, one can find thousands of species of fish, but two of the most sought after by commercial fishermen are the California Halibut and the White Seabass. Both fish are classified as "demersal", meaning they live near or on the bottom of the ocean floor and catching fish of both species in the 20-30 lb pound range is not uncommon. ...

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Via: Startup Lessons Written by Eric Ries Trying to change how startups are built.

The Lean Startup model has a concept known as the "minimum viable product" (MVP). This is a version of your product you create that serves only to test an assumption in the real world by giving your customers something they can actually use. It may not be pretty and certainly does not contain every feature you want it to have, ...

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Via: Entrepreneurs Journey Written by Yaro Starak Blogger and Internet business entrepreneur from Australia

The concept of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) can be elusive because it comprises a contradiction: it's both minimum and viable. However, the MVP has well known precedents. ...

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Via: Lean Startup Machine

I'm going to use this post to break down what I did right and what I did horribly wrong during the process of building Domain Polish. We'll cover everything from pricing to exit negotiations replete with lots of interesting (and sometimes stomach-churning) statistics. ...

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Via: Dan Shipper Written by Dan Shipper UPenn junior. Co-Founder at @UseFirefly. Jets fan.

I understand the Lean Startup thesis and the benefits it provides to startups looking to create and evolve products that resonate with users. But as I read through the book, there was something about the Ries' thesis that wasn't clicking. I wondered whether it was just me or whether there is a flaw or hole in The Lean Startup. ...

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Via: Mark Evans Tech Written by Mark Evans Startup marketer, conference organizer, hockey player, dad,

"Pretotype It" by Alberto Savoia lists seven techniques for determining that you are "building the right product before you invest in building your product right." Bold text is from the book, my comments are mixed in below each one. ...

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Via: Sean Murphy Written by Sean Murphy New Technology Product Introduction Focused on Early Custome

I'm going to walk through my thought process and strategy around a new project I've been playing with to [hopefully] show what's happening under the hood. After failing at business blogging several times and then quasi-succeeding, I began to wonder whether many other people suffer from the same problems. ...

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Via: The Startup Toolkit Written by Rob Fitzpatrick Founder at http://dex.io (get more speaking gigs). I talk &

With the popularization of lean startups, minimum viable products (MVPs) have recently entered into business and software lexicon. Who can argue with building more than you actually need? Many people seem to interpret MVP as the first iteration of their product. Once they build that version, they can add more features, and whomever uses the product will be even more happy than before. Businessp ...

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Via: 22 idea street Written by Anthony Panozzo Interested in entrepreneurship, lean startups, customer deve

Lean Startup isn’t responsible for the deluge of crappy products being released by mediocre startups. Erick Schonfeld makes that suggestion in his recent post Details Matter. I’d argue that the mainstream usage of things like Twitter and Facebook (along with social media’s ability to create incredible influencers), lower costs and barriers to entry (development is easier/faster) ...

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Via: Instigator Blog Written by Ben Yoskovitz VP Product @GoInstant. Partner @YearOneLabs. Ex-CEO/Founder

Landing pages, conversion, bounce rate, blah, blah, blah, blah, yada yada yada. As important as all of those terms and concepts are, sometimes you need to step back a bit and look at things in a more playful manner. ...

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Via: Unbounce Blog Written by Oli Gardner Co-founder of @Unbounce - opinionated writer on conversion o

I recently gave a talk to LUXr New York about MVPs, or really about running experiments. Instead of using the term “MVP”, I find myself using the word experiment for a few different reasons: less jargon; a clearer connotation of lightweight, learning, and not necessarily tied to digital product, and a clearer signal that this [...] ...

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Via: Giff Constable Written by Giff Constable MD at Neo in New York; maker, designer, entrepreneur, and ag