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Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by JamesBarney on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:54AM (#25629004)
Yeah mvp only applies to startups where product market fit is the biggest risk.

If you have a known market like nuclear fusion and your biggest challenge is going to be how do I scale nuclear fusion, and how do I raise money from the DoD than mvp/lean startup and 99% of the advice on this site aren't applicable.

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Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by nwienert on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:37AM (#25632653)
A huge chunk of startups covered on this site disrupted existing industries and as the web matures MVP becomes less and less useful. The original post here wasn’t a good fit for MVP, and yet we had to come and swat down the proselytizing as it’s so pervasive.

Tesla, Google, and just so many huge companies absolutely aren’t good fits for it. It’s a limiting framework at this point as people seem to have oversubscribed to the philosophy and turned it into religion.

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