minimum viable product

Slow and steady doesn't always win the race.

In this episode of The Backchannel, we dive into a unique perspective on startup success that's not just about fundraising but about building a thriving business.

Jason emphasizes the importance of launching your startup before you think you're ready.

Forget about striving for perfection—what you really need is to get something out there and start chatting with customers.

Find out how launching before your masterpiece is complete not only leads to a better product but also impresses investors.

Tune in to this episode to discover why taking the leap now can save you from a lot more trouble down the road.

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Three mistakes are common when early-stage founders plan their strategy: scoping, revenue sources, and lack of validation. Let's dive into why we trip up on these issues and what to do about it.

The blog post: https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/avoiding-the-entrepreneurial-planning-trap/

The podcast episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e2bb7424

The video: https://youtu.be/oGLf5YqXdA8

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This episode is sponsored by Acquire.com

Entry Envy was founded in October 2021 by Jennifer Lea in Omaha, Nebraska, to help others create a welcoming entry with simplicity and convenience that also identified their home for their guests and delivery drivers. 

Entry Envy custom signs with modern address numbers, last names and monograms feature a small planter box for their monthly faux floral holiday and seasonal decor refill kits. 

Her inspiration came after a divorce and fully remodeling her home with outdated, hard-to-read house numbers and wanting something functional and fun. 

Entry Envy was awarded Best New Subscription of the Year by the Subscription Trade Association in 2022. Before founding Entry Envy, Jennifer served as the Executive Director for two medium sized law firms in Omaha for 18 years. 

She has a bachelor's degree in business with a marketing major, an Executive MBA, and is a contributing author of the book, "Wisdom Before Me." 

She enjoys mentoring and sharing what she has learned about managing businesses and starting her own to help others. 

She has two teenage daughters, a dog, and a tortoise. Her life purpose is to encourage more young women to consider the trades as a noble profession.

In This Conversation We Discuss: 

• [00:00] Intro
• [00:58] What are Entry Envy products?
• [02:27] Where the idea of Entry Envy came from
• [07:14] Validating the idea through an art fair
• [09:02] Hiring a coach to help launch the brand
• [10:19] What was the preparation before going public?
• [12:15] Getting help from overseas 
• [13:58] Don’t cheap out but don’t overspend
• [14:39] Sponsor: Electric Eye electriceye.io/connect
• [15:36] Sponsor: JSON-LD For SEO jsonld.app
• [16:58] Showing appreciation to first supporters
• [17:41] Your friends and family aren’t your customers
• [18:20] Getting lucky on the time of launch
• [19:15] When should you quit your job
• [20:11] The turning point when Jeniffer finally quit
• [21:22] At some point, you have to go all in
• [22:08] Where to find Entry Envy products
• [23:41] Invest in yourself, but don’t do it by yourself
• [24:51] Don’t skip testing your MVP
• [25:31] Definite your success and set your deadlines
• [26:26] The best way to understand your product-market fit
• [28:05] Don’t outsource getting customer feedback
• [28:21] Customers providing their own niches
• [29:44] Always talk to your customers
• [30:35] Outro

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• Custom exterior & interior entry signs with house numbers, last names or monograms and faux floral refill decor kits entry-envy.com

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• Connect with Jennifer linkedin.com/in/jenniferleafounder
• Schedule an intro call with one of our experts https://electriceye.io/connect
• Get your free structured data audit for your store https://jsonld.app

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Do you sometimes feel that your topic is not responsive enough? Do you feel that you may want to change your niche? In this podcast I share a powerful "MVP" strategy that will help you get results much faster than you can imagine.

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18 May 2023: What do venture capitalists look for in a startup? 

Tom and Neil discuss how to get VC funding with Lachlan Hughes of Aditum Investment Management and Daniel dos Reis of Wamda Capital. 

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been an emerging hot topic over the last several months with the rise of Open AI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s integration of ChatGPT technology into its Bing search engine, and Google’s announcement of its own chatbot, known as Bard. And while there are concerns about the more “general AI” technologies built to improve neural network capabilities so they are comparable to those of humans, health care systems are able to expand their services by leveraging the more familiar “narrow” or single-task AI tools, such as virtual chat assistance. Deploying this kind of AI technology can lead to an enhanced self-service experience for patients. 

We welcome Matt White, Director of Innovation at Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS), who shares how they’ve begun to thoughtfully integrate AI technology in order to better understand their patient engagement, with the ultimate aim to provide a consistent experience across all digital channels.

Learn more about the people, places, and ideas in this episode: 

• Matt White, Director of Innovation at Contra Costa County Health Services
• Hyro.ai
• Technology Hub, a CCI program that helps organizations vet, pilot, evaluate, and spread innovative digital health solutions targeting Medicaid markets and historically underinvested communities

👉🏽 Register today for CCI's upcoming  webinar, “Set up for Success: Supporting Patients and Providers Through Video Visits,” on April 5, 2023 at 12pm PT.

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ONCE UPON A TIME… Brandon shares the story about the early days of Seamless.ai where everything was chaotic and out of place. He also shares the difficulties he and the company faced when they started, and how the mindset of never giving up and never quitting help them succeed. Learn more about this story in this latest episode of Sales Secrets.

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Brandon Bornancin is a serial salesperson, entrepreneur and founder of Seamless.AI. Twice a week, Brandon interviews the world’s top sales experts like Jill Konrath, Aaron Ross, John Barrows, Trish Bertuzzi, Mark Hunter, Anthony Iannarino and many more -- to uncover actionable strategies, playbooks, tips and insights you can use to generate more revenue and close more business. If you want to learn the most powerful sales secrets from the top sales experts in the world, Sales Secrets From The Top 1% is the place to find them.

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Brandon Bornancin is a serial salesperson (over $100M in sales deals), multi-million dollar sales tech entrepreneur, motivational sales speaker, international sales DJ (DJ NoQ5) and sales author who is obsessed with helping you maximize your sales success.

Mr. Bornancin is currently the CEO & Founder at Seamless.ai delivering the world’s best sales leads. Over 10,000+ companies use Seamless.ai to generate millions in sales at companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Slack, Dell, Oracle & many others.

Mr. Bornancin is also the author of "Sales Secrets From The Top 1%" where the world's best sales experts share their secrets to sales success and author of “The Ultimate Guide To Overcoming Sales Objections.”

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Less than 10% of all startups will succeed. Why aren't more succeeding? Because they don't implement and excel at building a custom growth engine designed for the sustainability and scalability of their startup to achieve hyper-growth and longevity, whether that's to become one of the new breeds of legacy brands or to sell or eventually be acquired. Learn how to attract and convert your ICP from your content velocity and the concepts to increase the valuation of your MVP in this episode.

I spoke to hundreds of startup founders as a keynote speaker at Glorium Technologies' Startups: Funding & Beyond 2022, where I gave all the essential tea to building the infrastructure and instilling the concepts necessary for your startup to be among the 10% that make it all the way. This episode pulls from my live keynote as well as my book. The link to the full keynote is below.

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#0065 What does it take to start and run your own SaaS (Software as as Service) business?

How do you build an audience?

How do you know your software is one that your audience will want?

The last thing you want to do is pump a ton of time and effort into something your ideal client doesn't want.

Today, we are chatting with Jeroen Corthout, Co-Founder of SalesFlare, about how they managed to plan, build, launch, and grow their own CRM software.

Throughout the episode, Jeroen shares some of the mistakes they made early on (so you can avoid them yourself), and talks with us about how to effectively and efficiently build our own SaaS company from scratch.

Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. What is means to build a minimum viable product and what that looks like in the SaaS world
2. Better understanding of how to get your first feedback and possibly first customers for your SaaS business
3. How to expand your network and potential customers beyond your immediate circle

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 65 Show Notes.

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In this episode of Startup Hustle, join Matt and Matt for Part 28 of "How to Start a Tech Company" as they discuss what to consider as you build your MVP and how to build your startup's minimum viable product.

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Today with Jonathan Kahati, passionate Product Leader from Microsoft, we will be talking about minimum viable product, how to define scope, and set clear success metrics.

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Do we hold self-published books to a lower standard? What about Kindle Unlimited books? The "minimum viable product" approach to writing books feels fraught to me, but maybe it's like guzzle wine vs. special occasion bottles.

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In this episode, we invite Mukesh Bansal, Founder and CEO of Phable, a healthcare startup from India that recently raised a $12 million Series A; and Riaz Mehta, Founder and CEO, of allrites, Asia’s leading B2B marketplace for film and TV content. Our guests bring with them a cumulative 40+ years of building, and running businesses across Asia. We dive deep into what makes experimentation a pre-requisite to running a successful startup and how small changes can have a colossal impact on the business.

Show Notes:

2:26 - Introduction to Mukesh Bansal and Riaz Mehta

5:56 - Experimentation in a startup context

9:54 - How the healthcare industry encourage/discourage experimentation

13:08 - Source of inspiration in deciding about what and how to experiment

20:49 - The The Minimum Viable Experiment

25:58 - Framework for prioritizing action items

31:41 - Should founders go against their own beliefs and convictions

41:14 - How COVID has impacted experimentation

46:47 - Actionable advice to aspiring entrepreneurs

Our 8x8 Global Speakers Series event is taking place on April 10th, where we bring 8 amazing speakers to share their insights in 8 minutes on building, running, and scaling businesses across Asia. Join us online via Zoom or offline in Shanghai.

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Many thanks to our guests Mukesh Bansal and Riaz Mehta; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and  Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com

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In this episode, Jason Sherman Author of Strap on Your Boots shares what makes the difference between a successful start-up and one that bombs and never gets going.   A lot of people talk but he works with founders every day as well as having taught the material a Wharton.  We also talk about his background as a musician, entrepreneur, building minimum viable products prior to launch, film making and a bit of Star Wars.


Jason Sherman is a successful entrepreneur, award-winning filmmaker, published author, tech startup expert, and journalist. He has been featured by several media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Verge, and ABC News. Jason is fluent in Spanish, is a classically trained violinist, and was a featured speaker on FOX’s Futurist TV Show: Xploration Earth 2050.
https://jasonsherman.org/

This week's discussion focuses on MVPs, or minimum viable products. We go over what it means, questions we ask before building one, and the big question - How much does it cost to build an MVP. Josh also discusses a related term for a product, SLC or simple, lovable, and complete.

Referenced Articles:
SLC: https://blog.asmartbear.com/slc.html
Pyramid: https://ux.shopify.com/the-thing-thats-missing-from-your-mvp-1e54c954b314