Tips from experts on how to build a successful Minimum Viable Product. Best answers by fans of Lean Startup methodology, compiled from Quora.

1. Build a Successful Minimum Viable Product – Tips & Hacks from Experts
A Compilation of Best Answers from Quora

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“If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your
product, you've launched too late” - Reid Hoffman, Co-founder of
LinkedIn

3. Prioritize features from a User Experience perspective
-Tristan Kromer, GrassHopperHearder.com

4. The conventional agile-school-of-thought
recommends consciously building an incomplete
product, to test the waters really
- Arindam Chakraborthy, Getechoed.com

5. Discover what
customers value and
deliver that
- Joshua Seiden

6. The status of every user story should be
available in your project management tool.
Started -> Finished -> Delivered ->
Accepted/Rejected.
Review daily. Quick review  Quick Delivery
ADD HOURS
Selecting a critical end-user to focus on helps you to
focus your design and development efforts
-Marc Abraham, Digital Product Manager

7. An MVP is Wright Brother’s first plane, not a
Boeing 747!
-Pek Pongpaet, Pinstagram

8. If you understand code, review code regularly
in the early stages.
Test Driven Development is one of first
initiatives you’d have to adopt!
OPTIMIZE FOR QUALITY
Set an artificial time limit to launch the
MVP
- Pek Pongpaet, Pinstagram

9. Draw your business model canvas and see where
your key assumptions lie
- Balaji Viswanathan, Zingfin

10. Divide you user community into segments to get
better understanding of your user base
-Guy Nirpaz, Totango

11. Launch and be
prepared to Iterate
- John B.Petersen III

12. An MVP only exists in order to help the team
learn something about customers and their
behavior
-Ian Collingwood

13. Complete automation of every
feature is cute, but not necessary!
-Ashwin Ramaswamy

14. 50% of Startups I meet require Zero coding for
their MVP
-Tristan Kromer

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