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🚀 How Dropbox Launched With No Product The MVP Secret Every Startup Needs When you hear “MVP,” you might think of sports. But in startups, MVP means Minimum Viable Product and it might just be the most powerful tool in a founder's toolbox. 🧠 What is an MVP? An MVP is the simplest version of your product that still solves the core problem. It’s not perfect. It’s not pretty. But it works just enough to test if people actually want what you're building. Instead of building everything, you build just enough to learn. 🧪 Real MVPs that made it big: Dropbox launched with a 2 minute explainer video. No real product yet just a demo. People loved the idea. That was validation. Airbnb started by renting out their own apartment. That was their MVP. Simple. Direct. No fancy tech. Zappos? The founder took photos of shoes from stores and posted them online. If someone bought, he went to the store and shipped it manually. These weren’t products. They were tests. 🎯 Why is MVP the startup foundation? Because: It saves time and money. It prevents building something nobody wants. It gives real-world feedback, fast. Most startups fail not because the tech is bad but because nobody wants what they built. Building a startup? Don’t start with features. Start with the problem. Then ask: What’s the simplest thing I can build to solve this, test it, and learn? That’s your MVP. 🌝👑
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