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Minimum Viable Product Template - Cheat Sheet
A comprehensive breakdown of Minimum Viable Product and the tools you need to create one for your startup.
Finding And Solving Customer Pains - Problems Don't Exist
Entrepreneurs should stop talking about abstract solutions and frame their pitches in terms of solving real problems, but I was wrong. Problems don't exist.
Lean Startup Machine - 10 Most Effective Tips and Tricks
1) Focus relentlessly on people. 2) Cash in hand beats bullshit on slide... 4) If your MVP can't prove you wrong, then it can't prove you right either.
Build Measure Learn vs. Learn Measure Build
The Build-Measure-Learn (BML) loop is the most fundamental concept of the Lean Startup. And it's completely backwards.. To do it right, start with Learn.
Minimum Viable Experience: User Experience is Not a Feature
Is anyone else out there sick of signing up for on-line products that don't do what they promised? "It's only an MVP" is a poor excuse for bad user experience.
Lean Startup vs. Visionary Entrepreneur
There is an ongoing misconception that creating a company under a lean startup approach is incompatible with a big entrepreneurial vision.
Taxonomy of the Lean Startup Anti-Pivot
Sometimes pivoting describes how entrepreneurs adapt to customer feedback. Sometimes it's an annoying buzzword, grating to the ears.
Minimum Viable Founding Team > Minimum Viable Product
The pursuit of someone who is "committed to the idea" is insidious because it's less obviously flawed. Why wouldn't you want a co-founder who's in love with your idea?
Pivoting on Investor Feedback a.k.a Beware of Startup Mentor
Don't outsource your decision making. Even if it's someone you respect and they've tried a similar business model before, do the customer development yourself.
Innovation Culture: "Who Gets Shot"
If something is wrong with your spark plug, you don't shoot it. And threatening it with violence isn't going to prevent it from getting dirty.