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The Lean Approach: Minimum Viable Product – Creating Commercial Before Product

11/21/2016
The Lean Approach
  • The Lean Method
  • Getting Out of the Building: Customer Development
  • Customer Development Data
  • Minimum Viable Product
    • This Can Mean Shipping a 50% Product
    • We Scrapped The First Beta Six Months Into It
    • First Website: Comic Sans Was Involved
    • Rapid Prototyping
    • Features Should Be Natural Extensions of Product
    • Listen To Your Research
    • Creating Commercial Before Product
  • Customer Acquisition and Archetypes

Zach Kaplan of Inventables discusses “The Lean Approach: Minimum Viable Product – Creating Commercial Before Product.”

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