2. ● Low Fidelity – have you identified a problem customers
care about?
● High Fidelity – is the solution on the right path to scale?
● Getting out of the building is the common thread – not
any particular technology
● Alternate: “Minimum Value Proposition”
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3. My first MVP: Paper Prototyping
(1994)
● Everyone can draw equally poorly
● Stop obsessing over pixels, shades of blue
● Don’t spend engineering £ on code that
doesn’t solve problems
● Reflected desktop software realities of the
time
4. My second MVP: ship it, then watch
the customer feedback queue (2005)
● Reactive, but progress was based on hard-
won experience
● Ties engineering to consequences
● Higher-fidelity (obvs)
● Covers new and existing users (if you would
like it to)
8. How does the MVP get you to
product/market fit?
● Design, Engineering, and PM need to all be on the
same bus
● “Measure twice, code once”
● Remember the 10x rule: “Meh” is as good as “start
over”
● When people start saying “I will pay you $X to make
this pain go away,” you’re getting there
9.
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11. MVP - maker tools
● Flinto for any mobile prototyping fidelity
● Keynote/Omnigraffle for low-fi web
● Various web frameworks for shipping/hi-fi
○ Foundation 5
○ Bootstrap 3
○ Meteor
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13. MVP - metrics
● Do they pay?
● Do they sign up? Download your app?
● Do you make a marketplace? Match rate?
● NPS?
