It’s not good advice. It’s misleading, a poor generalization, and entirely misses the point of what an MVP is. An MVP is not defined by time to build, but by t

It’s not good advice. It’s misleading, a poor generalization, and entirely misses the point of what an MVP is. An MVP is not defined by time to build, but by the minimum necessary to build to make the very first sale. MVP is the minimum necessary to capture the Minimum Viable Audience. That could be a landing page or it could be a spreadsheet or it could be a complex app. It could be a game demo. The point is only build the minimum to be able to capture a customer and iterate. An MVP is not associated with a time frame at all. YC is wrong. Just read The Lean Startup which popularized the term. As a founder I’m pretty sick of these unrealistic platitudes tossed around by VCs and accelerators. It’s not educating anyone.