A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with the bare minimum features needed to validate a business idea and test its market fit. It is the most basic version of a product that can be launched ...

You’re going to be judged on the first thing you launch — everyone is. Explaining that it’s just your minimum viable product (MVP) and it’s not ready yet is sometimes fine, but I’ve seen many times ...

Whenever I talk about minimal viable products with product-driven startup founders, I often find myself in a frustrating conversation. The term MVP is such a profound misnomer; a good MVP is not ...

Using a minimum viable product (MVP) to test a business model is probably the most popular startup launch scheme. World-famous Uber, Dropbox, Figma and Slack started their way to unicorn status with ...

Michael Skok is a general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners and author of the Startup Secrets series. The “lean startup” methodology is great and has done a lot to revolutionize the way we ...