Presentation about minimal

1. “SD @ Cal Poly”

2. What is StartupDigest MVP MVP Examples Taking advantage of incubators

3. StartupDigest is the insider’s guide to the startup technology world. Regarded as the worldwide source for high tech startup events by: "Plain and simple, [Startup Digest] seems like a pretty smart idea to me..."

4. Curators Brendan McManusCo-Founder of StartupDigest, first employee for Wildfire Interactive, Inc. and the UpDown Chris McCann Co-Founder of StartupDigest, organizer for Geeks on a Plane Tokyo, founding team TEDx Silicon Valley Local Curators:

5. Growth Subscriber Growth

7. Goal of Incubator = MVP with Traction

8. Minimal Viable Product = MVP

9. MVP = “Minimal Viable Product” The minimum viable product is that product which has just those features and no more that allows you to ship a product for early adopters

11. 2 years to build

12. Epic launch

15. See if anyone wants this

16. Test revenue

18. “5,000 users in 4 months”

19. “Revenue doubling every quarter”

21. Test = MVP

22. Success = Traction

24. MVP Examples

25. Cars Direct

26. 4 Hour work week

27. Events

28. How we use MVP’s

29. Taking Advantage of IncubatorsAka the “Rape and Pillage” Strategy *ONLY* after traction Ask for advice 3 points to a line Take all of the glory at the end **special situations Launch MVP’s and get traction NOW

30. *Advice for non-technical founders http://startupdigest.com/2011/04/17/non-technical-founder-code/ http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ http://tryruby.org/ http://try-clojure.org/

31. Lasting Advice An MVP is not the end You don’t need to be technical to create an MVP A startup is an experiment Startup MVP’s based on your own problems

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33. Questions? Chris McCann chris@startupdigest.com @McCannatron