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In this kind of talks we take for granted that the startup is trying to solve an "easy" problem. We don't talk here about the "hard" ones, the ones that aren't
by monsieurbanana 6y ago
In this kind of talks we take for granted that the startup is trying to solve an "easy" problem. We don't talk here about the "hard" ones, the ones that aren't only a web UI. Hardware, medical, societal, etc... Ones that need years of research before you even know if it's feasible.
I use air quotes for easy and hard since obviously they are not the words I'm looking for, but I can't find better ones. All(?) problems are difficult to solve in some way.
Anyways, this is almost off-topic, not really fitted for a pragmatic thread such as this one :)
- JamesBarney 6y agoYeah mvp only applies to startups where product market fit is the biggest risk. If you have a known market like nuclear fusion and your biggest challenge is going to be how do I scale nuclear fusion, and how do I raise money from the DoD than mvp/lean startup and 99% of the advice on this site aren't applicable.
- nwienert 6y agoA huge chunk of startups covered on this site disrupted existing industries and as the web matures MVP becomes less and less useful. The original post here wasn’t a good fit for MVP, and yet we had to come and swat down the proselytizing as it’s so pervasive. Tesla, Google, and just so many huge companies absolutely aren’t good fits for it. It’s a limiting framework at this point as people seem to have oversubscribed to the philosophy and turned it into religion.