The document discusses how to build a minimum viable product (MVP) for a startup. It recommends:
1. Focusing on a simple implementation of your initial idea with the core set of minimum features to test it.
2. Releasing your MVP to users and listening to their feedback to learn and adapt before scaling up.
3. Using cloud platforms like AWS to lower the costs of innovation by enabling startups to fail faster, fail cheaper, and get to an MVP for around $250 within 3 months through automated resource management and devoting developer time to building the product instead of infrastructure.
7. 1.
Focus on a simple implementation of your idea
2.
Start with a minimal core set of features
8. 1.
Focus on a simple implementation of your idea
2.
Start with a minimal core set of features
3.
Release and listen to your users
9. 1.
Focus on a simple implementation of your idea
2.
Start with a minimal core set of features
3.
Release and listen to your users
Minimum Viable Product
20. Innovation & Iteration
Now: re-written as
app. Photo sharing is just one feature
photo app. Sold to FB
for 1bn
Scale
Started: burbn, location-based mobile
Time
21. Innovation & Iteration
Now: micro-blogging,
podcasts
500M users, >10Bn
valuation
Scale
Started: odeo, site to create & share
Time
22. Innovation & Iteration
Now: raised $42M,
successful. But then game 52…
downloaded 1B times,
25% paid, best sold
game on AppStore
Scale
Started: developed 51 games, none very
Time
23. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying
will eventually make you look like an overnight
success.”
Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder
24. AWS lowers the cost of Innovation
Scenario
Scale
Small team with initial idea for Mobile app
3 months to get to launch
Unknown customer/problem/solution
No cash….
Time
25. Dev / Test Environment
Average Spend
Scale
$0
p/m
Time
28. Getting to MVP for $250
Total Spend to MVP
Scale
$250
$0
$15
$235
Time
• 3 months dev/test/release
• Serving Beta customers
• Ready for full production
and scale
29. FOCUS!
Your application
Your business & what makes you unique
Innovation, not undifferentiated heavy lifting
Spending developer time in the right place
Automate as much as you can
(Deep insight alert: Developer Time = Money)
Build apps, not infrastructure
30. "Startups are all about focus. AWS enables focus"
Ray Bradford, Kleiner Perkins, Caulfield & Byers
31. “Your users around the world don’t
care that you wrote your own DB”
Mike Krieger, Instagram Cofounder
32. Focus requires Automation
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
AWS
OpsWorks
AWS
CloudFormation
DIY /
On Demand
Automated
resource
management – web
apps made easy
DevOps framework
for application
lifecycle
management and
automation
Templates to
deploy & manage
template-driven
provisioning
DIY, on demand
resources: EC2,
S3, customer
AMI’s, etc.
Convenience
Control
35. We Create the EC2 Instance
You Focus on Developing Your App
User Application
Application Service
HTTP Service
Language Interpreter
Operating System
Host
TIME TO MARKETNeed to launch the business quicklyLong development cycles and high costsInability to experiment and test the hypotheses that underpin the businessSCALABILITYUnpredictable demandNeed to deal with spiky traffic or sudden increase in usersNeed to scale out to cover new markets / regionsCOST & REVENUENo CAPEX budget Inability to forecast demand & commit long term contractsNeed to run a lean business & focus on generating revenue
We have a variety of purchase options that allow you to match your workload to the right model, and we’re happy to help you optimize your bill by working with you to choose the right mix of several of these.
We have a variety of purchase options that allow you to match your workload to the right model, and we’re happy to help you optimize your bill by working with you to choose the right mix of several of these.
AWS lets you lower the cost of innovationAccelerate your speed, be more agile, increase the value of your product.
We have a variety of purchase options that allow you to match your workload to the right model, and we’re happy to help you optimize your bill by working with you to choose the right mix of several of these.