I don't know what world you live in, but in mine, new software takes a lot of time to write, or a lot of money to pay someone to write it.
Edit: My MVPs may not meet your requirements for new software. They will not be all singing, all dancing. They will do some tiny slice of core functionality that allows me to prove the value of technologies application to the problem. Often with serious manual intevention.
I agree, an MVP is not a business. I would not expect that a business would be built in a few weeks or even months. My personal experience with businesses is that they take years.
But we're not talking about building a business. You do not launch an MVP and call it a business.
I was specifically talking about proving a business case for a solution that could turn into a business. This is precisely what the things we call 'MVPs' are mean't to be for.
Then what exactly were you talking about when you wrote this:
> businesses with basically 0 startup capital requirements, > 90% margins and minimal time commitments ala software.
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> I was specifically talking about proving a business case for a solution that could turn into a business.
At that point, however, you do not have a business. And you're not an entrepreneur.
* Viable? * Product?
My requirements are:
Viable: Someone will use it. Product: Someone will pay me.
What is a real entrepreneur then? Someone who quits their job and risks everything to fail?
You don't have to do that anymore for businesses with basically 0 startup capital requirements, > 90% margins and minimal time commitments ala software.
Are you calling for the classic starving artist entrepreneur who struggles through hell to build their business?
People don't always need to dance like that sort of monkey anymore, please stop demanding the weird masochistic performance porn. Working your self to a lonely death is no longer cool and shouldn't be again.
I'm sure you have other criteria that we must meet to be true entrepreneurs though. I'd love to hear them!