Lean startup is not about building something bad and ugly. Although the core process is named Build-Measure-Learn-Loop, it really starts with "Learn". You've go

Lean startup is not about building something bad and ugly. Although the core process is named Build-Measure-Learn-Loop, it really starts with "Learn". You've got to define hypotheses about your business model (e.g. customer pain points) and build experiments to validate. A MVP is the product with the narrowest set of features that predictably converts a target into a paying customer. From the customers perspective, you think of a MVP as a minimal lovable product (MLP).