By definition, if it's too M it's not V.
Solid rubric.
Ask HN: How many startups fail because their MVP is too minimal?
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Re: Ask HN: How many startups fail because their MVP is too minimal?
#12> How many startups fail because their MVP is too minimal? None. They fail because they didn't talk to customers, didn't do sales, didn't do marketing, or failed to find a viable service model after all that. MVP is shorthand for "do the least work customers will pay you for." Customers are shorthand for "people you can find who will pay you." MVP is quite often abused to mean "here's a thing I made." If you don't ha…
Thanks for the reply and apologies for the delay in mine. Busy trying to cobble together my MVP :)
You layout a glorious strategy for proving/disproving a hypothesis. As Steve Blank said, "get out of the building [and talk to customers]!"