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Creating Your MVP (or Startup Validation Hacks)
The document discusses essential strategies for validating startup ideas through minimum viable products (MVPs), emphasizing the distinction between treating a startup as a business or a hobby. Key steps include identifying a problem worth solving, exploring various MVP tools like landing pages, customer interviews, and Kickstarter, and focusing on genuine customer engagement. It stresses the importance of testing solutions with target audiences and iterating based on feedback to achieve product-market fit.
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- 1. Creating Your MVP StartupValidation Hacks Abby Fichtner @HackerChick Harvard Innovation Lab http://HackerChick.com
- 2. your startup isn’t a business a hobby it’s @HackerChick @Justin_Wilcox
- 3. your startup hobby business fun obsession cost lots $ @HackerChick @Justin_Wilcox
- 4. your startup hobby business fun cost opportunity obsession $150K salary cost lots $ @HackerChick @Justin_Wilcox
- 5. your startup hobby business fun obsession profit $ cost lots $ @HackerChick @Justin_Wilcox
- 6. is your startup going to be business or a hobby ? @HackerChick
- 7. MVP Goal VISION REALITY @HackerChick
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- 11. you‘re way too dumb to figure out whether your idea is good @HackerChick Andrew Mason, CEO of Groupon (NY Tech Meetup)
- 12. (MVP) Minimum Viable Product @HackerChick
- 13. MVP What’s the smallestthing I can do… business vs hobby ? @HackerChick
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- 17. Step #1 Find a problem worth solving @HackerChick
- 18. We had anidea for a new product. We went off & built it, put it on our website. @HackerChick
- 19. We had anidea for a new product. We went off & built it, put it on our website. not a single person clicked thru @HackerChick
- 20. We had anidea for a new product. We went off & built it, put it on our website. not a single person clicked thru What did we learn from that? @HackerChick
- 21. We had anidea for a new product. We went off & built it, put it on our website. not a single person clicked thru Was there a faster way to learn that? @HackerChick
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- 49. Photo Sharing App Recipe App Discover Local Events Group Travel Planning Facebook for <happy people/smart kids/psychos/dogs/travel agents/astronauts…> @HackerChick
- 50. VC: “There area million cloud storage startups!” Drew: “Do you use any of them?” VC: “No” Drew: “…” @HackerChick
- 51. Know where your target audience hangs out & speak to them in an authentic way @HackerChick @drewhouston, Dropbox
- 52. [MVP Tool] BusinessModel Canvas @HackerChick http://LeanCanvas.com
- 53. Brainstorm Customer Problem anyone who cooks can’t find recipes @HackerChick
- 54. Brainstorm Customer Problem anyone who cooks can’t find recipes amateur gourmet chefs want to make fabulous food for friends & family @HackerChick
- 55. Brainstorm Customer Problem anyone who cooks can’t find recipes amateur gourmet chefs want to make fabulous food for friends & family dieters need to lose weight @HackerChick
- 56. Brainstorm Customer Problem anyone who cooks can’t find recipes amateur gourmet chefs want to make fabulous food for friends & family in college dieters ^ need to lose weight @HackerChick
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- 64. How are theysolving those problems today? @HackerChick
- 65. Step #2 Find a solution that resonates @HackerChick
- 66. [MVP Tool] ConciergeService (AKA Wizard of Oz) Boston Startup School - @HackerChick @HackerChick @HackerChick
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- 77. speed prioritize for… & excitement @HackerChick @paulg, Y Combinator
- 78. but don’t be… too minimal @HackerChick
- 79. Some MVP Tools 1. Business Model Canvas 2. Customer Interviews 3. Landing Pages 4. Kickstarter 5. Videos 6. Concierge Service 7. Existing Tools Mashup (WordPress, Wufoo, Google Forms, Wix, App Builders, etc.) 8. Your imagination @HackerChick