Lean 9 Dec 2019 · 4 min read How Zappos Built a Product By Faking It OK, it wasn’t really faking it because there was a lot of work involved. It all started in 1999 when Nick Swinmurn, a software engineer from California, couldn’t Read more
MVP 3 Dec 2019 · 3 min read Build An Educational Product as Your MVP Multiple kinds of MVPs exist, and each serves its own purpose. A fake door MVP allows you to test interest with only an ad. A smoke test MVP will provide Read more
MVP 1 Dec 2019 · 4 min read How Groupon Built an MVP Without Tech and Validated an Idea in a Month In 2010, Groupon, a marketplace that offers its users deals with local merchants, had 700 copycat sites [https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0830/entrepreneurs-groupon-facebook-twitter-next-web-phenom.html#5c7f3af64c2e] . Do you know Read more
MVP 24 Nov 2019 · 4 min read Should You Build a Core Team Before Building an MVP? A prospective client of mine recently told me that his biggest struggle as a founder was dealing with procrastination. Procrastination happens when you have a task but it’s scary, Read more
MVP 22 Nov 2019 · 4 min read The Three Biggest Misconceptions About MVPs Throughout the years, as I’ve built products for startups — each of which started as an MVP — I’ve worked with many founders who had major misconceptions surrounding what MVPs Read more
MVP 20 Nov 2019 · 4 min read Why Your MVP Probably Shouldn’t Be a Software Product More often than not, it’s not a good idea to build software as your minimum viable product. Building software is risky. It’s time-consuming. It’s expensive. Especially if Read more
MVP 19 Nov 2019 · 3 min read Four Myths About What “Viable” Means In Minimum Viable Product The goal of any business is to provide value to your customers. And the only trustworthy indication of whether you’re doing that — of whether your minimum viable product is, Read more
Prototyping 15 Nov 2019 · 3 min read What Is Pretotyping and How Is It Different from Prototyping and building MVP? The term “pretotype” was coined by Alberto Savoia, former Engineering Director at Google. Ass he explains on his website [http://pretotoypelabs.com/], the main advantage of building a pretotype is Read more
Prototyping 14 Nov 2019 · 4 min read What Is the Difference Between a Prototype and an MVP? Using electric car manufacturing as an example, I’ll illustrate the difference first: A prototype for an electric car might be a wooden, life-size model of the car. The model Read more
MVP 8 Nov 2019 · 3 min read Minimum Viable Product Isn’t What You Think It Is To fully understand what minimum viable product means, let’s first dissect the term, word by word. Minimum refers to the least amount of effort required to create something. Viable Read more
MVP 7 Nov 2019 · 3 min read How To Calculate The Real Cost Of MVP For Your Startup Calculating the real cost of a minimum viable product (MVP) is so important to my development team that we’ve hired a business analyst who dedicates their time to getting Read more
Non-technical founders 21 Aug 2019 · 4 min read How to build an app 2x faster and cheaper My journey into product development started from building websites back in 2004. The web was pretty much a collection of HTML pages with some CGI scripts sprinkled here and there. Read more
MVP 2 Dec 2018 · 4 min read How to choose a tech stack for your application A tech stack is a set of programming languages, frameworks and software products that are used to build your application. A typical application consists of at least two layers — client-side Read more
MVP 23 Sep 2018 · 4 min read Make sure that your MVP is really minimal I made a post earlier this week about why you might not need MVP at all. That post was poorly titled and my intended idea wasn’t very well described. Read more
MVP 17 Sep 2018 · 4 min read Why you might not need MVP at all There are a lot of questions about building the MVP version of the app on this sub, so I decided to write a post based on recent discussions. I see Read more
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