10 examples of minimum viable products - Venture Hacks
- “If Apple can launch a smartphone without Find or Cut-and-Paste, what can you cut out of your product requirements?” – Sramana Mitra
- USV-backed foursquare uses Google Docs to collect customer feedback. No code, no maintenance.
- Fliggo sells it before they build it.
- Grockit puts up a notify-me-when-you-release form on steroids.
- Auto e-commerce site uses manualation and flintstoning for their backend.
- Semiconductor company uses 5 people and FPGAs to build a $100M semiconductor product line.
- Consumer company uses fake screenshots to sell their product.
- Allicator uses Facebook ads: “Ditch Digger? Feeling spread thin? Click here to complete a survey and tell us about it.”
- ManyWheels uses Microsoft Visio to build clickable web demos for prospective customers.
- Cloudfire uses a classic customer development problem presentation.
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Great stuff here… Once you start cutting features, development gets even more fun. What’s left is a much better (and...
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some great advice/anecdotes from @venturehacks !
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tedr reblogged this from caterpillarcowboy and added:
do usability testing...products they are considering releasing.
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