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What The Lean Startup Movement Is Missing – Golden Nugget Anecdotes

What often gets lost in lean startups and customer development is the talking to customers part. After reading “The Lean Startup”, one often remembers certain anecdotes about the startups. What they most often remember is the minimum viable products or minimum viable tests that sucessful entrepreneurs created. They often don’t remember the intensive customer development…

Do your first 20 blogposts really matter?

I’m sorry, this is a rant on blogging and does not have anything to do with minimum viable products. Well, technically a blog can be a minimum viable product, so let’s extrapolate a bit. Does your minimum viable product (or blog) really matter if no one is viewing it? Yes and no. Yes, because the…

Why Does This Blog Exist?

I’ve been running iBuildMVPs for the last year or so without a blog, so why create one now? The answer is simple: I see the same mistakes and answer the same messages repeatedly. Maybe if there are more resources available for building minimum viable products, testing hypotheses, and finding your way to product market fit,…