what are you testing? minimum viable people, minimum viable product or minimum viable platform
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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.TRANSCRIPT
What are you testing? Minimum Viable People Minimum Viable Product Minimum Viable Platform
Rif Kiamil - CEO FOODit
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
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!
Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
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.
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?
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
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/
In Summary..
In Summary.. FOOD is yummy!
“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“ )
Learn more about FOODit at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
Rif Kiamil - CEO FOODit