MVP is a term that is tossed around a lot but few people actually use as the author intended. If you seek the literature where the term "MVP" comes from, you'l

MVP is a term that is tossed around a lot but few people actually use as the author intended. If you seek the literature where the term "MVP" comes from, you'll see 1) MVP is not the same as prototype (you can validate an idea on the market without even a prototype), and 2) there's no definition of "too long", it's situational. > As I talked about in a previous interview, IMVU’s original MVP took us six months to bring to market. That was a pretty big improvement over a previous company, where we spent almost five years before launching. Yet in another situation we spent two weeks building a particular feature that absolutely nobody wanted. In retrospect, two weeks was way too long. We could have found out that nobody wanted the product a lot sooner. At a minimum, a simple AdWords smoke test would have revealed how utterly bad the concept was. [1] [1] https://leanstartup.co/what-is-an-mvp/ https://leanstartup.co/what-is-an-mvp/