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What are you testing? Minimum Viable People Minimum Viable Product Minimum Viable Platform Rif Kiamil - CEO FOODit

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FOODit talking at Google Startup Launch Summit about What are you testing? Minimum Viable People, Minimum Viable Product or Minimum Viable Platform. How FOODit picked its platform and what you should be thinking about when picking your platform.

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Page 1: What are you testing? Minimum Viable People, Minimum Viable Product or Minimum Viable Platform

What are you testing? Minimum Viable People Minimum Viable Product Minimum Viable Platform

Rif Kiamil - CEO FOODit

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I’ve got an idea! I want to build it

Background• Developer/CIO for 12 years for JJ Food

Service

• Did it all & loved it.. Had a amazing team

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I’ve got an idea! I want to build it

Day 1 of FOODit• Building a team would take time• Wanted a product now• Just completed reading “Lean

Startup”• I wanted to give up how I did

things in the past and never deal with servers, patching and SQL performance again!

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Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

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Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

We were not learning how to build a website for restaurants, but how to get restaurants to pay for our services, to be found on Google and get online orders.

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Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

Magento

An open source e-commerce platform built on PHP / mySQL. Now owned by eBAY.

Could I have used the features in it to give me a jump start. Pricing, Vouchers, Billing & Tax?

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Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

Azure

Could I find a low cost team to work with that could use Azure or an other platform?

Azure / Microsoft is big in India. Can find lots of teams

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Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

Google App EngineSince 2008, when App Engine came out I wanted to work on it. It lets you focus on building!

I found a team that was into “Lean Startup” and Google App Engine. The team was http://3wks.com.au/

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In Summary..

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In Summary.. FOOD is yummy!

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“Myspace was written in ColdFusion & Facebook was written in PHP”

• What do you need to learn?

• Will you win due to technology or other factors

• Does your product need access to low level parts of operating system

Be a Pusher ( see Mean Girls - "I'm a Pusher Cady“ )

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Learn more about FOODit at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

Rif Kiamil - CEO FOODit