Any hints as to what space/ kinda business is this?  
 I've done a startups and MVPs before

Exploring in Aggregators,  B2B, SaaS Spaces.

Software Engineer

Quite a few things you can do:  
  
 1/ Market research and concept validation - talk to 50+ managers from potential early customers and see level of interest and feedback. Companies have raised small seed cheques just doing this 
  
 2/ Make a great sign-up page for your product before actually building it. Spend a little money to acquire a few users and see if the concept has any traction. 
 Pretty much what you'd do if you'd built it. You'll get validation way sooner this way.  
  
 3/ If you want to build an MVP, get it outsourced on upwork as per your budget. Some of the best companies like Uber started by outsourcing.  
 This will actually get you started and you'll get directly get feedback on a product that you got built.

Product Manager

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MVP is minimum viable product. But what business case you want to bring to? In which domain?  Unless that is finalised cannot give any idea

Business Analyst

plugging me my new MVP which might be useful www.ideaflo.in

Generalist

1. use figma to create prototype, learn it on your own - 0 cost 
  
 2. Setup website with few pages - landing, features, about, refund, privacy, pricing 
  
 Get a college kid intern to code it, if you got connections, this could be free 😔 
  
 3. Make sure the signup page asks for credit card or some form of token payment if not full. 
  
 4. Show the prototype demo video on the website landing page.  
  
 5. If people are paying (also means signing up) you have early/gut PMF or not.  
  
 Of course refund people who paid since you don't have a product yet.  
  
 Everything else is just excuse.  
  
 When you actually achieve gut PMF (i.e people wanting to pay for a product that don't even exist), then start building founding team, then build a minimal version of the figma design, not full, raise funds and rock on.

Founder

Start with Excel, work upwards from there. Many MVPs can be started on Excel if you break down the work into smaller parts. 
  
 Depends on what features you want ofc.

Hi Viners, would like to know how a non coder can build an MVP and check for market validation. !!

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Suggest some tools to build an MVP and test an idea plz

Suggest some tools to build an MVP and test an idea plz- Grapevine

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I have a self funded startup and am looking for product studios that can help with MVP launch under 5 lac ( strictly under that figure ) I have tried contacting some of them.individually but could only find those charging 7 figures.
PLEASE HELP

Product studios that make MVP under 5 lac

Product Marketing Manager

Dear Founders of Grapevine!
If i have not registered anything and built a tech product and garnered 200-300 users and conclude that the MVP is complete , now to further scale the tech product i need capital to keep the product running and make the final product , What are my options , Where should i apply? Things i should do and not do in this situation , what metrics should i keep ready in case of a pitch! 
More information 
I am 20 years old 
The product is a tech product 
No paperwork has been done yet 
Market test is positive!

Successful MVP test , Now?

Hey, I think I have a decent (tech) idea with good product market fit and got it validated from few people in its industry. I’ve started working on an MVP with the team, and we think we can develop it in a month.

What should we do apart from it, we want to get funding as soon as the mvp is made. What all should I know, any resources, what registration and everything else.

What to do after making MVP

Analyst

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I have an MVP of an application I really wanted to work on -- My passion project. I want to understand the lifecycle of launching an app from someone who has done it before/knows about it. What should my next step be?

Lifecycle of an app

Acquiring funding for a startup in india has become a hassle. I myself have been doing research on seed funding Vc's and angel investors. All they ask is pitch deck and LinkedIn profile. Which they don't even go through and just reply with an email saying we are not eligible for funding. On the other side US and other countries are getting funding at the ideation stage. I guess we can't even go for crowdfunding. Started building MVP, but halfway through the hurdle and unable to resume the development due to limited resources.

Tired of applying everywhere for funding.

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I've got an idea and I'm eager to turn it into reality. 🌟 
What are your thoughts around what should be the process, steps, the right path one should take in order to bring a product to life. 🤔💡

Building a Product

Hey guys,
I've validated a problem and would like to work on it with a potential tech co-founder. 
Plan:
1. Build the MVP (4-6 weeks)
2. Valiate with the customers (potential)
3. Gather the feedback
4. Raise money (already in talks with pre-seed investors)
5. Keep the ball rolling :)

If any of you are interested, let me know, and we can have a private discussion (feel free to send me a DM).

I'm happy to go through the problem and provide answers to any of your questions.

Ask for a potential co-founder :) / MVP Validation

I'm a final year industrial design student and throughout the course, we've been trained to conduct user research in effective ways, come up with new products (physical or digital) and also advertise the product. I'd say, we've been trained more on how to be a successful entrepreneur than a designer.
However, now that there's a brief idea about what we have learnt, the biggest hurdle that is extremely common in our field, is a lack of skillset required for entrepreneurship in today's world. We have come up with ideas for multiple startups throughout the span of 3-4 years. We're a group of 3 designers, 2 of us who are industrial designers, we usually do all the brainstorming and define the direction of the entire startup. The other guy is a UI/UX designer, who helps us come out with the most effective interface and build a semi working prototype on softwares like Figma. 
But it always just stops there. We, being designers, we learn multiple softwares that cater specifically to design. But when it comes to this, none of us know how to code and actually bring it to life. That's the biggest challenge we're facing right now, because we know we need to find a developer, but we don't know how to and where to approach any of them. This has been going on for over a year. 
It would really be appreciated if anyone could suggest platforms that help us connect to like minded developers and are willing to take part in building a startup from scratch rather than just interning or working for one.

A roadmap from dream to reality

1. Novel/new business idea 
2. Degrees/MBAs
3. Experience/reputation
4. Money (hardly 20-30k to register company)
5. CTO
6. Employees/Co-founders
7. External investment
8. Website/app
9. Social media accounts
10. Office location (register home as office)

Far too many people focus on needing xyz before starting up. Most of them are excuses and self-imposed roadblocks from what I've seen in my conversations with people.

I'm currently working on 2 ventures that still have many items missing from this list. Doesn't really stop me from making revenue and profit.

Sure, there may be some things required from this list for specific businesses and at diff stages. But they are mostly an extra, good to have but not required.

What is required in copious amounts is courage and will power, willingness to face rejections and ability to withstand multiple failures only to get back up and try again. Also, a healthy enough risk appetite.

I hope to see more young and talented folks (especially MBA grads) start their own thing some day. Best time is in your twenties and early thirties, when you have little to lose. 

If you have any business ideas you want help with, I'd be happy to discuss and share contacts and resources if required.

Good luck soldiers, see you in the arena 🪖

What you DON'T NEED to run a business/startup/side hustle

Product Owner

Team is less than 10 people still, slowly growing. Net profit could be higher, that's top priority to work on now. Total cash invested by founders was 15L over 3-4 years.

Yearly revenue :

2019 - less than 30k 
20 - 1.5L (after pivot)
22 - 50L

Getting to the first lakh and then to 10 lakhs was probably the most challenging part.

We thought of shutting down multiple times, struggled through multiple fights between founders. Glad we didn't stop working and pulled through.

This is my 4th or 5th attempt at starting up. Except for 1, other attempts didn't even get to incorporation stage.

Would love to hear from other bootstrappers and their experience.

Personal milestone: 1Cr in rev as a bootstrapper

We’re at about $400K bootstrapped with a team of 2 (me included), started in 2019. Revenue almost doubled in last 18 months. 
  
 My personal observation is that if you’re going to bootstrap, you need to go after high margin, niche markets (unless you’re doing services) because you don’t have a lot of money for marketing. 
  
 Our main growth channel is affiliates and SEO. Growth will be slow so we just have to keep at it. Also, beware of VC-funded competitors.

We have an idea but, we worry that did really fit in market or not. And how would I find actual problem that my target user facing.

How to find if our startup idea is really going to solve or not

1. I am having a strong problem statement, which is thoroughly validated, along with a business plan, but I am not working or starting it as I lack confidence because I don't have a team in place.

( I am an IIM graduate and currently a product manager - giving these details just to get a sense of my background, which might help in the type of suggestions from your side).


2. How can I find a co-founder/partner/core team member? Please advise me on where to look for co-founders or people that share a similar mindset. 
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Please help me to navigate through this situation. Thanks in Advance 🙏

Need Advice - How to begin working on a Idea/Startup ?

I am creating a software solution (mobile app+web app) which can help a small group of any and friends group to create a workspace(similar to slack) and then create events and they will be able to create tasks for those events and can also chat with people in the same workspace.
So basically a (jira+slack) for non organisation peeps.

I started creating this two months back, and a basic MVP will be completed by the end of april.

I want to know from you people "The Product managers" how can I do marketing for this solution, can't  promote it on my personal linkedin as my company is not okay with their employee working on side peoject

How do I market my MVP?

Hey - am starting up in stealth. Have limited to no tech understanding. The product I am building requires some basic tech. Any suggestions on how do I go about hiring / getting external help for the tech piece?

Investor

I am looking for a plug-and-play solution to build an MVP of an app. I need the MVP ready within 2 weeks, even if it lacks extensive backend functionality and uses pre-fed dummy data.

A bit about the app: it takes input from users, saves it, learns from it, and suggests solutions based on the input. The MVP doesn't need to have a paywall or a fully-fledged backend.

Please keep in mind that I do not extensively code, but occasionally work with python and R. 

Really appreciate the help.

Any plug and play solution for building MVP of an app?

Product Head

I am working full time but the itch of starting up doesn't go away.
Please motivate me or suggest small wins to be on the path of starting.
I have the product / Target audience in mind.

Motivate me to Start-up

Analytics Manager

I have educational material that I want to host on a platform. It's all text for now, media can be added later. Have an angel investor interested in funding it as long as I have an MVP ready first.

What's the best way to create an MVP in the shortest possible time? Need a barebones one that can just deliver content to sign-ups to start with. I'm not a coder but I can experiment with AI tools to make something basic.

Want to keep it minimum effort because it's only one person who's interested as of now, and there's no guarantee of investment even after MVP is ready.

Suggest some tools to build an MVP and test an idea plz

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