This document provides steps for building an MVP, including creating a landing page and blog to build a community and validate your business idea. It discusses various cloud tools like SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, and IPAAS that can be used to deploy applications. Some recommended open source software and development tools are mentioned. The CEO's view on prioritizing development time, resources, talent, and business goals is outlined. The team assignment is to build an MVP website by a certain date that will be evaluated based on user experience, product pivoting, and value proposition.
2. Step 0: Building Community
Create a landing page (Buffer)
validate your business idea.Thats something Buffer did, and it worked.
Describe the bene鍖ts of your product,
Add Call-to-Action and bring in web traf鍖c.
Start a blog (Groupon)
WordPress blog
platform for users to leave feedback.
Make a video (Pebble)
showcasing the bene鍖ts your product.
3. Cloud Tools
SAAS (Software as a Service)
Shopify, Cafe24,Wix, Google,Amazon Apps(AI, big data), Microsoft Of鍖ce 365, salesforce.com
PAAS (Platform as a Service)
AWS,Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku
IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service)
Amazon EC2,Windows Azure, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine.
IPAAS(Integration Platform as a Service)
Infomatica, Dell Boomi, Google Apigee
MBAAS(Mobile Backend as a Service)
Firebase,Amazon,Azure, Parse, Heroku
13. CEOsView for IT
Development time
Save resources (community size, libraries, infrastructure, )
Good Talent pool (some solutions needs higher salary, and dif鍖cult to 鍖nd)
Suitable for the lean practice?
Business-goal-oriented approach, not for ego of engineering staffs
14. Team Assignment
Build a MVP as a form of website with
Landing page that could show users the service of product
A button calling action
A page showing the outcome (value)
Due: April 6
Evaluation point
User experience of your MVP
How did you pivot product concept to make your value proposition more attractive?
Is your product has a compelling reason to buy?