1. “SD @ Kellogg”

2. What is StartupDigest MVP MVP Examples Advice

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4. Curators Brendan McManusCo-Founder of StartupDigest, first employee for Wildfire Interactive, Inc. and the UpDown Chris McCann Co-Founder of StartupDigest, organizer for Geeks on a Plane Tokyo, founding team TEDx Silicon Valley Local Curators:

5. Growth Subscriber Growth

7. Minimal Viable Product = MVP

8. MVP = “Minimal Viable Product” The minimum viable product is that product which has just those features and no more that allows you to ship a product for early adopters

10. 2 years to build

11. Epic launch

14. See if anyone wants this

15. Test revenue

17. “5,000 users in 4 months”

18. “Revenue doubling every quarter”

20. Test = MVP

21. Success = Traction

23. MVP Examples

24. Cars Direct

25. Foursquare

26. 4 Hour work week

27. Events

28. How we use MVP’s

29. Lasting Advice An MVP is not the end You don’t need to be technical to create an MVP A startup is an experiment Startup MVP’s based on your own problems

30. *Advice for non-technical founders http://startupdigest.com/2011/04/17/non-technical-founder-code/ http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ http://tryruby.org/ http://try-clojure.org/

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