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Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product | Linear
Don’t lower sign-up friction—raise it Your job at this point is finding early adopters who are at least as passionate about the problems you’re addressing as you are. The way you do this is not by lowering sign-up friction, but by raising it. Position your MVP as a prize Too many entrepreneurs are embarrassed by their MVPs and use labels like alpha
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🚀 Embrace MVP : Instead of aiming for perfection, I’ll aim for “good enough.”
Tomas Stropus • The Art of Finishing
A minimum viable product (MVP) helps entrepreneurs start the process of learning as quickly as possible.3 It is not necessarily the smallest product imaginable, though; it is simply the fastest way to get through the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop with the minimum amount of effort.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The MVP is just the first step on a journey of learning. Down that road—after many iterations—you may learn that some element of your product or strategy is flawed and decide it is time to make a change, which I call a pivot, to a different method for achieving your vision.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success
meet countless teams that claim to be following Lean principles; yet, they work for months on what they call an MVP, and they really don't know what they have and whether it will sell until they've spent substantial time and money—hardly in the spirit of Lean. Or they go way overboard and think they have to test and validate everything, so they go
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