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Adrian von Orelli

Zürich, January 2015

Different faces of MVPs

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Topics addressed in this talk

• Why you need an MVP• What it is (definition)

• Pretotype• MVP

• Examples

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Why you need an MVP

Don’t sell the products you can build

Build the products you can sell

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Lean Innovation Framework

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Everything is an experiment

Internal debates do not generate facts, but smart experiments do.

Persuade by selling your opinion eloquently

Design effective experiments that generate facts

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What do you want to learn first?

How to build your product?

or

If customers will buy your product?

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Minimal Viable Product

The MVP is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learningabout customers with the least effort. (Eric Ries)

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Don’t be afraid …

Don’t be afraid to be “embarrassed” when customers see your product for the first time, you will be embarrassed anyway. Eric Ries

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Where does an MVP start?

4) Early version with minimal feature set that can be sold to early adopters. Sales channel can be crowd founding (e.g. Pebble).

1) Proposal: a document describing the solution

3) Fake demo of any kind

2) Smoke Test: Landing Page to test interest

MVP

Pretotype

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AlbertoSavoia

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Minimal Viable Product

An MVP is NOT a crappy version of the final product.

The challenge is to achieve “minimal” and “viable”.

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Minimal Viable Product

An MVP is NOT a crappy version of the final product.

The challenge is to achieve “minimal” and “viable”.

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Pretotype Example (Hardware)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66ZU2PCIcM

How IDEO workedin 1999

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Types of Pretotypes

Smoke test: Landing Page + Adwords

Mechanical Turk

Fake Door

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In Person Interview / Proposal

Explainer Video

Pinocchio (Mockup)

Purpose of PretotypesBe able to test a product hypothesis with minimal resources

Accelerate learning

Reduce wasted engineering hours

source: Wikipedia

Get the product to early customers as soon as possible

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Pretotype Example (Pinocchio)

Simulate living room ambience effect of flat Screen TV (compared to CRT)Around 2002

From Tom Kelly „the ten faces of innovation“

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Pretotype Example (Explainer Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE

Test vision ofcloud serviceoffering -Dropbox

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Pretotype Example (Pinocchio)

Simulate mobile app

Pawel

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Famous Landing Pages (Smoke Test)

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Landing Pages (Smoke Test)

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Types of MVPs

Wizard of Oz:

Zappos

Concierge model:

Food on the table

Crowd funding:

Pebble

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MVP: Food on the table (Concierge)• Signed up first customer by describing benefits of

service plus subscription fee

• Provided recipe service personally (concierge MVP)

• Learned customer needs in detail and automated laterwhat worked

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MVP: Groupon (Wizard of Oz)

• Skinned Wordpress blog and posted daily

• Used filemaker to create PDF coupons and emailed

• Effectively validated the demand for such servicewithout developing a seamless system

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MVP Examples

The first GoPro cameras used 35mm film and were strapped to a person’s wrist and only captured pictures of the ride.

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MVP Examples (Concierge)

http://steveblank.com/2013/07/22/an-mvp-is-not-a-cheaper-product-its-about-smart-learning/

Test business model for Drone based agriculturalimaging service

MVP: Rent camera and planeinstead of building a drone

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Crowdfunding

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CrowdfundingTest traction early

Get early customer feedback

Marketing channel

Sales channel

Finance development and first batch of production

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MVP Examples (Clever Demo)

Demo of multilocationsynchronizedtouch screenscrum board byvideoconference.

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Things to note

Progress is not getting it’s work done,

its about learning and understanding

if you are effective

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MVP Example (Explainer Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWu9TFJjHaM

Thalmic Lab’s Myodevice was able to attract 10,000 pre-orders or $1,5 million in sales in the first 48 hours with this video.

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