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How to Plan the Minimum Viable Product

Agile Alliance

MVP, short for Minimum Viable Product is a concept that emerged in Silicon Valley and became very famous from many successful stories such as Facebook, Zappos, Dropbox, amongst many others. The post How to Plan the Minimum Viable Product first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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. Because your idea of minimal is far more minimal than that of the person you’re showing it to. Minimal is a sliding scale that will always slide onto you.

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Your MVP doesn’t need to be perfect; it needs to be stage appropriate

TechCrunch

Startups are essentially machines that build MVPs (minimum viable products) that help answer questions and gradually de-risk the value proposition of the company. The key is that every MVP a company builds needs to be laser focused on answering a very particular question.

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

TechCrunch

You probably presented a minimum viable product and initial consumer research, and were backed for that. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. When it becomes repeatable, you can scale it. Remember the point at which you raised your initial funding?

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Mitigating Risk in Digital Product Development

These are costly scenarios product leaders must try to avoid. Add to that the competitive need to get a product to market fast and you’ll find product teams shortening their sprint cycles, relying on minimum viable products, and most shockingly, forgoing customer feedback altogether.

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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. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Anand Rao is global head of AI at PwC.

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

TechCrunch

Mindset launched in an MVP (minimum viable product) version in February. Rather, it’s a way for artists to share more intimate experiences with their fans to show that behind they music, they’re people too.

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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?