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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

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You need a minimum viable company, not a minimum viable product. In a guest post for Extra Crunch, seed-stage VC Ann Miura-Ko shared some of what she’s learned about “the magic of product-market fit,” which she termed “ the defining quality of an early-stage startup.”

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Here’s what I learned while leading a bootstrapped startup to $40M ARR

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But, one of the greatest challenges we were able to avoid was starting with a finished product. We decided before even coming up with a name, that the most important thing would be to start with a minimum viable product (MVP). In other words, the bare minimum required for someone to use it and get value out of it.

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Daily Crunch: US law enforcement charges SBF with fraud as he awaits extradition after Bahamas arrest

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Shreve tells Kyle that with the fresh capital, Ngrok will grow operations and “make continued investments” to improve its core product offering. The trillion-dollar construction industry isn’t known for its efficiency, accused of failing to move with the times and ignoring digitization in favor of legacy tools, Paul reports.

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3 experiments for early-stage founders seeking product-market fit

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Construct concept prototypes. Conduct user surveys using platforms like pollfish.com and 1Q (instant survey tool). Identify and define their customer personas. Conduct customer interviews and synthesize them. They also met prospective customers, conducting a focus group of 10-15 moms.

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ConocoPhillips goes global with digital twins

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billion to construct. It has a long-term contract to supply natural gas to the state and export to Japan, and took the team a month to go from data gathering to a working minimum viable product (MVP). Within six months, the facility was actively using the digital twin to support operations.

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Exploration to elimination: CIO road map for adaptive technology portfolios

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Use minimum viable products (MVPs) to validate concepts. Construct an adaptive portfolio: A blueprint for dynamic management Assemble a cross-functional A-Team Effective technology portfolio management demands organization wide collaboration.

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How MVP helps a business in developing mobile applications?

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MVP stands for “Minimum Viable Product”, it is about constant improvement and continuous development of a product. Regardless of whether you are new to the development of the settled organization, how to build a minimum viable product is the query for all. How MVP works for mobile apps?