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Making the case for IVP: Initial viable product

TechCrunch

Explaining that it’s just your minimum viable product (MVP) and it’s not ready yet is sometimes fine, but I’ve seen many times where that’s the dealbreaker in itself. My concept of the initial viable product (IVP) isn’t just a hyperiterated MVP. It’s the first truly viable product you choose to launch.

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Gartner: 13 AI insights for enterprise IT

CIO

Move beyond productivity and consider ‘sidekick’ like use cases to fully deliver the promise of AI. Develop minimum viable products by composing and mixing multiple innovative AI techniques as the AI learning curve is incompressible,” said Erick Brethenoux, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner.

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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

TechCrunch

The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. Here are three steps that startups — especially the ones that incorporate significant AI/ML techniques in their products — can use to develop an EVP.

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Budgeting and planning for your first digital product

TechCrunch

Since there’s a different answer for nearly every situation, I have a few key points that are always helpful for business leaders considering a digital product for the first time. There are five main points you should consider when developing a digital product. Start by determining how much you can spend to develop the product.

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Mitigating Risk in Digital Product Development

As a product leader, mitigating risk in your digital product development is one of your highest priorities—and likely what’s keeping you up at night. Failed products. These are costly scenarios product leaders must try to avoid. Missed launch dates. Wasted sprints.

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Mindset, an artist-driven mental wellness audio platform, raises $8.7M from Scooter Braun’s TQ Ventures and others

TechCrunch

We decided that there wasn’t really the right kind of platform out there for this type of storytelling, so we decided to develop our own mobile platform to uniquely share these stories in an audio format.” Mindset launched in an MVP (minimum viable product) version in February. ” Image Credits: Mindset.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have.

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Get Better User Insights With Wasteless Validation

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant

Product teams tend to get ahead of themselves by rushing from idea straight to building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). How can a product manager slow their team down and prevent them from wasting valuable resources? Why a product manager should validate first and build second.