Chapter 8. Developing Your Product
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
—GUY KAWASAKI, COFOUNDER, ALLTOP
In this chapter we’ll discuss effective strategies and decisions for developing your first working prototype. The goal at this point is to find a pragmatic balance between building a product that will grow to a reasonable level and respond easily to rapid learning and changes in business concept.
Because this is your initial prototype you have to expect that changes to your product will come quickly based on user feedback, and may send the product in a very different direction, within a short period of time. This means there’s a good chance your code will be a mess by the time you find market fit, and before you begin to realize serious ...
Get The Smarter Startup: A Better Approach to Online Business for Entrepreneurs now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
