Potential customers say, ”Give me feature X,” “Give me
feature Y,” and sometimes you do what they want, maybe sometimes you’re going
to do what you want, and then they get mad at you. Pretty soon you’re chasing
your own tail a little bit because you’re not operating against a clear,
long-term vision of what you’re trying to accomplish.
The idea of minimum viable product is useful because you can
basically say: our vision is to build a product that solves this core problem
for customers and we think that for the people who are early adopters for this
kind of solution, they will be the most forgiving. And they will fill in their
minds the features that aren’t quite there if we give them the core, tent-pole
features that point the direction of where we’re trying to go.
So, the minimum viable product is that product which has
just those features (and no more) that allows you to ship a product that
resonates with early adopters; some of whom will pay you money or give you
feedback.
(Interview with Eric Ries, published on http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product)
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