Minimum viable product

Minimum viable product (MVP)

A minimal viable product (MVP) is a product with only a basic set of features - released in order to test a new business idea

and get people’s feedback. It thereby puts focus on the importance of learning in innovation work.

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The reason for building the minimum amount of product necessary is that building the minimum amount means it gets built more quickly.

https://openclassrooms.com/en/courses/4544561-learn-about-lean-startup/4703206-discover-the-4-types-of-minimum-viable-product

At the beginning, the Amazon website was very simple: A catalogue of books. If a customer ordered a book, Amazon bought it straight from the distributor and shipped it.

https://www.revelx.co/blog/minimal-viable-product-examples/

Zalando started with just an online storefront consisting of pictures of shoes from shoe stores. When a pair was sold, one employee ran to the shoe store to get the shoes, put them in a box, and shipped them. There was no e-commerce or warehousing at all.

One man made up the logistics department.

https://www.revelx.co/blog/minimal-viable-product-examples/

Before a design conference, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia wanted to help conference participants have cheap accommodation during the conference. They took pictures of their apartment and

put them on a simple website. Soon they had 3 guests.

This was the start of AirBnb.

https://speckyboy.com/successful-minimum-viable-products/