Tips & Tricks on getting your MVP done

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Startups are often faced with limited resources in their quest to commercialize new technology.

Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized by Eric Ries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ries) for web applications (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application). A MVP has just those features that allow the product to be deployed, and no more. Eric defines MVP as “the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers (http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/04/validated-learning-about-customers.html) with the least effort.”

Here are 10 great examples of MVP:

“If Apple can launch a smartphone without Find or Cut-and-Paste, what can you cut out of your product requirements?” – Sramana Mitra (http://www.sramanamitra.com/2008/02/24/the-iphone-as-a-minimum-viable-product-archetype/)

USV (http://unionsquareventures.com/)-backed foursquare uses Google Docs to collect customer feedback (http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=ck14Z3lLTEJYRUNLNDllQ05wTklhYWc6MA). No code, no maintenance.

Fliggo sells it before they build it (http://venturehacks.com/articles/sell-it-before-you-build-it).

Grockit puts up a notify-me-when-you-release form (http://venturehacks.com/articles/customer-development-patterns) on steroids.

Auto e-commerce site uses manualation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529420) and flintstoning for their backend.

Semiconductor company uses 5 people and FPGAs (http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product#comment-8057) to build a $100M semiconductor product line.

Consumer company uses fake screenshots (http://leanstartup.pbworks.com/Case-Study-One) to sell their product.

Allicator uses Facebook ads (http://groups.google.com/group/lean-startup-circle/browse_thread/thread/3ab7800f52d748da): “Ditch Digger? Feeling spread thin? Click here to complete a survey and tell us about it.”

ManyWheels uses Microsoft Visio to build clickable web demos (http://kevindewalt.com/blog/2009/01/03/mitigating-market-risk-with-microsoft-visio/) for prospective customers.

Cloudfire uses a classic customer development problem presentation (http://www.ashmaurya.com/2009/10/how-i-built-my-minimum-viable-product/).

There are a lot of platforms & tools for creating your MVP. In this workshop we will cover some of the tips & tricks to get your MVP done so that you can move your product forward. This could help your startup attract co-founders to getting those early adoptors to buy in or even raising funding for your startup.

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Shawn has over 20 years of experience in the Software Industry having started his career teaching himself 'C' language and launching his own Startup in College and exiting 3 years later.

He has worked on development platforms that have evolved from languages like C, Delphi & Visual Basic in the 90's to PowerBuilder & .NET and more recently PhP & JavaScript.

He will be talking about new platforms that are emerging to become interesting options for Startups to get their Apps out through the door. These platforms are non-program

mer focused, easy to learn, quick to build on, supported by massive communities and very cost effective.

Dan Pala, Elance (https://www.elance.com/)

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Elance is a global online staffing platform where companies, organizations and individuals can hire independent freelance professionals and use online collaboration tools to manage teams and projects.

Manuel da Costa, Leanconf (http://leanconf.co.uk/)

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