A Landing Page is NOT an MVP - Lean Startup Machine Ultimate

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Is a landing page an MVP? After looking at Eric Ries' and Ash Maurya's definition of an MVP, my conclusion is no. I offer 4 different types of MVPs (email, blog, paper, video). I also offer my version of Buffer MVP and how I made money in one day.

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A Landing Page is NOT an MVP

@RamliJohn

Question...

Is a landing page a minimum viable product?

Think of an awesome idea

Create a sexy MVP landing page.

Get a billion sign ups before the product is built.

Build the product

Make a bazzilion dollars.

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Road to Richness

MVP

A version of your “product” that maximizes validated learning by delivering and

capturing customer value for the least amount of effort

Landing Pages

Maximize validated learning

Capture Value

signed up?

You: Cool, let’s chat

Customer: FU, spam!

You: Why didn’t they sign up?!? Is it bad copy, design, AdWords?

Maximize Learning?

Capture Value?

Riskiest Assumption

MVP should test your riskiest assumption.

The biggest risk for most startups is not technology but the market

(i.e. get paid).

What about Buffer?

http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-weeks-how-we-did-it

My Buffer MVP

https://popapp.in/projects/529e25fc0c6f1a855d00021b/preview

Hack Your MVP

Email MVP - ex. AngeList, TimeHop

Blog MVP - ex. Groupon

Video MVP - ex. Dropbox

Paper MVP - ex. my Buffer MVP

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Use Landing Page to Scale Value Capture

Do things that don’t scale first, before you do - Paul Graham

http://customerdevlabs.com/2012/12/02/crowdtesting-using-crowdfunding-kickstarter-test-an-mvp/

@RamliJohn

Ramli John

Ramli@RamliJohn.com

www.RamliJohn.com

Lesson learned:

Be patient for growth, but hungry for profits ($$$)

First MVP should not be scalable but capture value ($$$)

Use a landing page to scale value capture through pre-orders

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