buildmvp.com
  • Overview
  • Our approach to this guide
  • Problem
    • Think global, act local
    • Know your industry
    • Don't bet on dying markets
    • Find an underserved market
    • Choose a niche
    • One problem at a time
    • Write your problem statement
    • What's product-market fit?
  • Solution
    • Use what already exists
    • Solve for one customer first
    • Describe how you solve
    • Don't build software
    • Go for concierge service
    • Automate little by little
  • Scope
    • Split into pieces
    • Prioritize wisely
    • Move incrementally
  • Build
    • Connect existing tools
    • Use open source
    • Use no code
    • Pro-coding as the last option
  • Team up
    • Have a tech advisor besides you
    • Learn software development basics
    • Have a tech co-founder (if possible)
    • Be a part of the community
  • Miscellaneous
    • Why startups fail
      • Failure stories
    • Why you finally succeed
      • Success stories
  • Resources
    • Startup ecosystem
    • Education
    • Tools
    • Tech advisors
    • Q&N
    • Committers
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Overview

Startup success is absolutely dependent on the quality of decisions founders make. Marketing, funding, sales, hiring, technology, legal are all the areas where you need to make decisions. This guide aims to help you as a startup founder make better decisions specifically on technology in your startup journey.

  • Explain the purpose and approach of the guide (what this guide is and what it is not).

  • Introduce the guide as a roadmap for startup founders to build an MVP efficiently.

  • Emphasize simplicity, practicality, and cost-effectiveness.

  • Highlight key sections covered in the guide (Problem, Solution, Scope, Build, Team Up, etc.).

This is mostly for non-tech first time startup founders.

Though, if you already tried and failed, you might want to use this guide for troubleshooting what was wrong.

You have a brilliant idea for a startup that will definitely become a unicorn but you are not sure how to get started OR you are intimidated by software technology.

It is written by software developers passionate about lean startup methodology, customer development, and helping non-techies.

The main ideas this guide promotes:

  • In order to build a business (startup is a business) you need to solve someone's problem in a way others did not.

  • A problem has to exist not only in your head but in the heads of real people, they have to suffer from the problem.

  • Competition is bad in the beginning and you should find an underserved market (a niche) with no competition.

  • If a problem is real there are always early adopters and you should find them. If you can't find early adopters it is a bad sign for your startup as it means either there's no problem OR you are not capable to make it work.

  • You can alway narrow a problem down to a smaller one. There's no such thing as a problem that is too small. Pick the smallest problem, solve it and expand from there.

  • Don't build software until it is absolutely necessary.

  • TO BE CONTINUED...

Small problem, underserved market, early adopters, no software, add software little by little.

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