FOODit talking at Google Startup Launch Summit about What are you testing? Minimum Viable People, Minimum Viable Product or Minimum Viable Platform. How FOODit picked its platform and what you should be thinking about when picking your platform.

1. What are you testing?
Minimum Viable People
Minimum Viable Product
Minimum Viable Platform
Rif Kiamil - CEO
FOODit

2. I’ve got an idea! I want
to build it
Background
• Developer/CIO for 12 years for JJ Food
Service
• Did it all & loved it.. Had a amazing team

3. I’ve got an idea! I want
to build it
Day 1 of FOODit
• Building a team would take
time
• Wanted a product now
• Just completed reading “Lean
Startup”
• I wanted to give up how I did
things in the past and never
deal with servers, patching and
SQL performance again!

4. Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

5. Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
We were not learning how to build a
website for restaurants, but how to
get restaurants to pay for our
services, to be found on Google and
get online orders.

6. Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
Magento
An open source e-commerce platform built on
PHP / mySQL. Now owned by eBAY.
Could I have used the features in it to give me a
jump start. Pricing, Vouchers, Billing & Tax?

7. Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
Azure
Could I find a low cost team to work with that
could use Azure or an other platform?
Azure / Microsoft is big in India. Can find lots of
teams

8. Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
Google App Engine
Since 2008, when App Engine came out I wanted to
work on it. It lets you focus on building!
I found a team that was into “Lean Startup” and Google
App Engine. The team was http://3wks.com.au/

9. In Summary..

10. In Summary..
FOOD is yummy!

11. “Myspace was written in ColdFusion
& Facebook was written in PHP”
• What do you need to learn?
• Will you win due to technology
or other factors
• Does your product need access
to low level parts of operating
system
Be a Pusher ( see Mean Girls - "I'm a
Pusher Cady“ )

12. Learn more about FOODit at
http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
Rif Kiamil - CEO
FOODit