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

Prioritize features from a User Experience perspective

-Tristan Kromer, GrassHopperHearder.com

The conventional agile-school-of-thought recommends consciously building an incomplete

product, to test the waters really- Arindam Chakraborthy, Getechoed.com

Discover what customers value and

deliver that- Joshua Seiden

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 HOURSSelecting a critical end-user to focus on helps you to

focus your design and development efforts -Marc Abraham, Digital Product Manager

An MVP is Wright Brother’s first plane, not a Boeing 747!

-Pek Pongpaet, Pinstagram

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

Draw your business model canvas and see where your key assumptions lie

- Balaji Viswanathan, Zingfin

Divide you user community into segments to get better understanding of your user base

-Guy Nirpaz, Totango

Launch and be prepared to Iterate

- John B.Petersen III

An MVP only exists in order to help the team learn something about customers and their

behavior-Ian Collingwood

Complete automation of every feature is cute, but not necessary!

-Ashwin Ramaswamy

50% of Startups I meet require Zero coding for their MVP

-Tristan Kromer

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