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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP
ColoftApril 2013
Tony Karrer, Ph.D.CEO, TechEmpower, [email protected]://socalcto.com
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Background• Ph.D. Computer Science, LMU Professor CS 10
Years
• Founder– Sprinkler Systems Installation (age 15)– Knowledge Stream ($59M exit)– TechEmpower (1997 - present)– Aggregage (2010 – present)
• Part-Time CTO / Technical Advisor– Talk with 100+ startups each year
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Stage?
Idea Ready to Build MVP Launched
• Volunteers?
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Why Are You Building an MVP
• Get Next Round of Investment• Get Early Customers• Test / Prove Aspects of Product
– Cost of Customer Acquisition – Conversion Rates / Pricing– Viral Coefficient
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MVP Homework
• Customer Interviews: Problem, Solution, Feature
• Minimum?
• Features?– http://www.socalcto.com/2011/08/32-questions-developers-
may-have-forgot.html
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Document for a Developer
• Business / Product Concept• User Types• User Stories• Wireframes• Feature Specification• Technical Requirements (Scale, Systems)
• Others– Personas– Use cases– Requirements
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Balsamiq
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Founder Developer Gap
• Mark Suster, GRP, Ideal Startup Team
– http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/02/06/how-to-configure-your-startup-team/
Technical AdvisorProgrammer
FriendPart-time CTO ?
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Protect Yourself
• Own the Document/Issue Tracker/Code Repository, Hosting Arrangement, SSL Certificates, etc.
• Iterations• Deliverables/Features/Functions• Test, Fix Process• Price - Not to Exceed• Termination
• Agile?
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Development Issues
• http://www.socalcto.com/2010/03/symptoms-of-weak-development-team.html
• Missed deadlines• Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been
tested; Bugs – no big deal. The system keeps crashing – no problem; Annoyed at testers for finding bugs.
• Fixing one thing breaks something else• No attention to detail, don’t ask questions
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Learn to Test
• Edge Cases
• Cross Device (Email - Litmus)
• Performance
• http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html
Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP
ColoftApril 2013
Tony Karrer, Ph.D.CEO, TechEmpower, [email protected]://socalcto.com