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Lets define what ships means then. It means delivering a product. Some companies die before they even ship a product to customers, and actually getting your i
by grey-area 12y ago
Lets define what ships means then.
It means delivering a product.
Some companies die before they even ship a product to customers, and actually getting your imperfect product out there in front of customers is a really important and difficult step to take, and usually results in you finding out you need to change it in significant ways you hadn't even considered.
Some companies die after they ship because they used up all their money just getting to the shipping stage and run out of time.
- AndrewKemendo 12y agoWhat you are defining is a single event. Shipping is a constant process. "ABS" always be shipping is pretty much the standard, so your definition makes no sense. Maybe I am just crazy though because isn't that the whole point of Lean startup, MVP etc...? You ship before things are ready in the "pretotype" phase?
- oe 12y agoI'm not so sure if it's the standard? I've seen many startups that took 6-12 months to ship the first version of their product. Usually the owners had read Lean Startup but still wanted to fix that one more thing before releasing anything. Coding something for more than half a year without any real users makes selling the idea difficult, and makes any setbacks bigger in terms of lost morale and keeping momentum.