Posted on December 14th, 2009
Today marks the day of the launch of Linkvive’s Minimum Viable Product. Launched in the true fashion of Paul Graham’s mantra: “Release early, iterate often” and Eric Ries’s Minimum Viable product, so aptly described in his interview by Venturehacks:
“The minimum viable product is that product which has just those features and no more that allows you to ship a product that early adopters see and, at least some of whom resonate with, pay you money for, and start to give you feedback on.”
We will keep a log on all progress made. Hopefully making Linkvive an interesting case study for all facets of Eric Ries’s “Minimum Viable Product”, Paul Graham’s Startup Philosophy and the “startup pyramid” as described in this excellent article by Startup-marketing.com. To give you a taste, here are our webstats for the past month, they are still flat ;-) :
The goal of this unpolished product, is to see how much of a need there is for solving the dreaded 404. And to find the best product/market fit. For this we need you, our pioneering first customers, to tell us what sucks, what doesn’t and where we can add stuff.
Who are we? Markus Törnqvist: an awesome Finnish Helsinki based hacker, Dirk Leys: über logo-designer that “doesn’t do webdesign” but did it for Linkvive anyway and finally me, Edo van Royen: another wanna-be internet entrepreneur.
Thanks, and cya!
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