minimum viable product

Your MVP doesn’t need to be perfect; it needs to be stage appropriate

Every minimum viable product a company builds needs to be laser focused on answering a very particular question.

The fundraising stages are not about dollar values — they’re about risk

You're not trying to increase the value of your company; that's a fool's errand. Instead, focus on de-risking your startup.

The majority of early-stage VC deals fall apart in due diligence

Here's what investors are looking for when writing the first check into a fledgling startup.

4 principles for building an MVP even if you can’t write a single line of code

If you haven’t found a technical co-founder or freelancer to build your MVP, here are four principles that will help in the meantime.

Miferia wants to expand its wholesale inventory marketplace across Latin America

The Mexico-based company enables retailers to bring their inventory relationships online, expand their product selection and get more favorable credit terms.

5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

Green startups now need to refine their strategies for raising VC money during the scaling stage, especially when they begin assessing their defining values vis-a-vis their finances.

Daily Crunch: European startup studio eFounders unveils its next-generation CRM tool

Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Your MVP is neither minimal, viable nor a product

Whenever I talk about minimal viable products with product-driven startup founders, I often find myself in a frustrating conversation. The term MVP is such a profound misnomer; a good MVP is not viabl

GV’s Frederique Dame on product-market fit: ‘You have one chance at a good experience’

"Understanding the user journey of your customers, and what you're doing with your product is really, really important,” said Frederique Dame. “Be obsessive and talk to customers as much as you ca

3 experiments for early-stage founders seeking product-market fit

We interviewed three founders from our portfolio, all of whom ran discovery experiments to find their product-market fit at different stages of their company’s development.

MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

Rather than developing a minimum viable product (MVP), companies should develop and roll out an ethically viable product (EVP) based on responsible artificial intelligence (RAI).

TechCrunch+ roundup: 5 pitch deck slides to fix, initial viable product, MLOps acceleration

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck.

Making the case for IVP: Initial viable product

If your IVP is your presentation of unbaked pepperoni pizza, your MVP is when you present a can of sauce, a package of cheese, a Slim Jim and a pencil sketch of an oven.

Selling into the enterprise: How Slack and other startups get it wrong

One of the key timing decisions as a startup may be one you aren’t even considering: When to approach the enterprise. If you aren’t debating that now, chances are you’re overlooking a big opport

Mindset, an artist-driven mental wellness audio platform, raises $8.7M in seed funding

Mindset, a platform featuring personal story collections from recording artists, announced today that it raised $8.7 million in seed funding. As co-founders of the K-pop-focused podcast production com

Build a digital ops toolbox to streamline business processes with hyperautomation

Using a medley of technologies in a digital operations toolbox helps businesses achieve key performance indicators through hyperautomation.

Hustle Fund wants to help spawn a new generation of angel investors

Kara Penn is the mother of four daughters and owner of Mission Spark, a management and strategy consulting company. And now, thanks to Hustle Fund, she is also an angel investor. Hustle Fund is coming

Five key lessons from founders who launched social impact startups

In the spirit of reaching impact at scale faster, we rounded up our top five lessons to take to heart if you want to turn your world-changing idea into a tech nonprofit.

Startup founders are building companies on WhatsApp

In Asia, where I work as a partner at an early-stage VC, startups are regularly rolling out a minimum viable product (MVP) and then transacting on messaging apps.

A chat about UK deep tech and spin-out success with Octopus Ventures

New research commissioned by UK VC firm Octopus Ventures has put a spotlight on which of the country’s higher education institutions are doing the most to support spin outs. The report compiles
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