Moore: MVPs should test one specific hypothesis, not build infinitely scalable code
Dan Moore · VaporWare Charges $25k to Build SaaS MVP, $1.2m 2019 Revenue · Sep 12, 2020 · at 8:45
Dan Moore, CEO of software development consultancy Vaporware, explains how early-stage startups should view MVP code when transitioning from agencies to in-house teams.
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“The goal of the MVP is always to learn one specific thing. So with that specific learning of here's the one thing that we're testing out here's the one thing we want to know, it's not necessarily this graceful handoff that scales into infinity. It's a very quick and dirty kind of way of solving the problem.”
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