Anyone, no matter how young or old, can be an entrepreneur. You just need to have ideas, perseverance, and an iterative framework to test your ideas until you find one that makes money (ie. creates revenue). By Jennifer Arguello (Co-Founder, Latino Startup Alliance) Think about an app or gadget you love to use. Is it [...]
Posts Tagged "Minimum Viable Product"
Turning An Idea Into A Viable Product: The Founder’s Journey
What marks a great entrepreneur is not necessarily the idea, but how well the idea is executed. By Jennie Lees (Product Manager, Google) The spark of inspiration strikes at the strangest times. Whether it’s a flash of insight in the shower, or a puzzle piece clicking into place, we all know the wonderful moment that [...]
Here Are Two Reasons Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) Fail
Come to Poornima’s workshop at General Assembly in San Francisco on October 27 for an Introduction to Product Development class to learn the process for picking features to create a viable MVP – register here to save 15% as a Women 2.0 member. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) Everyone wants to start validating [...]
The Minimum Viable Startup (October 10 In Palo Alto)
Generate your business model hypothesis and validate your idea on October 10 in Palo Alto – Women 2.0 members save 50% on tickets with discount code “Women20oct”. By Roger Rappoport (Founder, StartUp Info & Partner, Procopio) The startup world has developed a vernacular of its own which, for those of us whose daily lives are [...]
Partner Event: Minimum Viable Startup (October 10 In Palo Alto)
Generate your business model hypothesis and validate. The Minimum Viable Startup (MVS) on October 10, 2012 in Palo Alto is a custom all-day event to help entrepreneurs take the leap from viable product to viable startup and, along the way, avoid the most common mistakes made by entrepreneurs, which invariably leads to the same result [...]
PITCH 2012 Conference: Women Talk About Shipping Products, Not Shopping For Products
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) On February 14, Caterina Fake delivered the opening keynote at Women 2.0′s PITCH Conference stating the need and opportunity to “humanize technology before it dehumanizes us.” She underlined that “the Internet is built on a culture of generosity” and fear of missing out, urging the audience to [...]
The Zynga Method Of Market Testing (“Ghetto Testing”)
By Ramit Sethi (Author, I Will Teach You To Be Rich) One of the things you learn in my course on the best ways to make money on the side is how to fail fast and test things rapidly. Compare this to people who say things like, “Yeah… I need to get my website up… [...]





