This often involves human ingenuity instead of software. One of the best examples of an MVP is Zappos, where the founder went down to a local Footlocker and too

This often involves human ingenuity instead of software. One of the best examples of an MVP is Zappos, where the founder went down to a local Footlocker and took photos of all the shoes. He then uploaded them to his blog, added some margin on the price and had a buy button which emailed him whenever anyone clicked it. He’d then just run down, buy the shoe, add ship it over to the buyer. A simple blog was turned into a e-commerce MVP and his idea was slowly validated.