What's there to validate about your ideas? What are the cheaper, smarter, and faster way to learn the problem, solution, and the feasibility of the implementation?
How can MVP help to validate ideas, engage with users to decide what's a good idea and what's a stupid idea.
Let's learn why you should validate your idea before you put everything to leap-of-faith assumptions and bankrupt.
10. Problem
Do customers know they have a problem?
Solution
Would they buy if there is a solution?
Solve
Is it feasible to solve and sell?
11. Problem
Cannot fit in. It’s either too tight or to loose.
Solution
Cut off a leg or two to lose few pounds, or
Put up perfect fit fashion stores.
Solve
Manufacture all designs in all possible sizes.
17. Landing pages.
Only good for one thing and one thing only.
Interesting enough to give the email address.
18. Audience building.
Blogs, Meetups, Conferences etc.
Make you look like an expert.
Connect! Good to reach a broader audience.
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19. Design is not just what it looks like
and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs
22. Wizard of Oz.
Hide everything behind the curtain.
Helps to learn the process.
Do it with zero lines of code.
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23. Fake doors.
See how many will pass thru the door.
Good to figure out payment plans,
small features etc.
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There are plenty of projects that had done good with these, its just the rest of the ones that we are talking.
Nobody likes to install apps that nobody installed.
So, the BAs has to be Modernized.
Shouldn’t have done like that. You have to put more than 100% for your idea.
Speaking of faking. What if you could reveal what your users has to say about the your idea before you bankrupt?
It’s not worth to spend money and efforts before knowing what to build and how to sell.
The cheapest, smartest, and fastest way to get to know your users, connect, and validate your ideas.
The cheapest is to start talking about it on forums, and perhaps start a blog. Compello.com started talking about their ideas at Compello Day which is a conference with potential clients. Also, engaging with Microsoft and other partner meetups and conferences.
Stop worrying about crappiness. What matters is whether your idea works or don’t work.
All these products were made with MVPs.
Yeetup tried and things got really boosted ones they were enlisted on Betalist.
Compello’s newest app, Lucid is a startup itself. The team was given a challenge to validate the idea within two weeks and the team composed a mobile app with zero lines of coding that made the pace more faster than anticipated.
They used Powerpoint with Storyboarding and exported it as a clickable PDF to test on mobile devices.
Here’s how it can be done : https://vimeo.com/13848914