My oga @possicon has an idea about launching startups. Please do you agree?
Any startup idea that cannot be launched(MVP) within 30days its conceived, then the owner is probably not passionate enough to drive it!
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This is so untrue. So many of the greatest startups took up to a year and even longer to build their MVPs. Iām fact, that they stuck that long to their startups is the real show of passion. Look at Edison and the light bulb.
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Edison days older than Uberās.
Startup is not a website, even MVP can be done in a day. However long it takes to build a working product depends on the problem the idea is trying to solve. Perhaps @possicon could tell us how heād go about starting konga in 30 days.
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Donāt get me wrong guys, the amount for time it will take to launch a Tesla is not same that it will take to launch an Uber. The question is, what must be done before the first product is sold? First you signs up? All these I think could be done within 30Days! And if it takes longer than 90days for a b2c/ecommerce/social product, itās probably taking too long.
Untrue.
So untrue
Do not agree. Canāt even start describing how much I do not agree.
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The generalization that ALL startups can have an MVP in 30 days is wrong BUT for some you can actually build one within 30 days.
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No one is yet to ask how possible? Has it been done before here in Naija or anywhere else? No one asked if I ever done it before or not.
Let me take you through a brief journey. While at Konga just before we launched the marketplace, as we do normally then, Sim will walk in our office (shared by about 4 - 5 of us) we will bounce off ideas and see what we could build. I will look at the numbers and draft a requirements before you know it, its live in the on the site making impact on the bottom line. Coming to the marketplace everyone is looking at now, we were chatting at about 3pm or thereabout and Sim worked in and said, I think we should launch marketplace (This is after exchanging emails with articles and books on same topic). And we all shared how fascinating the model will be and we decided at moment to do marketplace. We draw some models on the board, simulated a few stuff and identified key hires we needed to make. Before 4pm we have call two potential hires for interview, one was able to make down same day the other came on Monday (it was a Friday ). I donāt think it took us up to 30days to launch the first iteration of the platform.
The second iteration which I oversaw and was my last big project before leaving Konga, same modelā¦define key things needed, skin to the MVP, and launch. You take care of the details later.
On whether I have done this before, my principle since I started this web journey is to be nimble, fast and break things but never compromise on excellence. Showroom.ng didnāt take upto 30days to launch and we delivered our orders within same circle. The question is to keep getting better and not to die on MVP!
typed this on mobile forgive typos.
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This is not really true Sirā¦
Tweeting generalizing/damning statements relating to a large industry as fact based on one or two experiences in an already established company with existing and plentiful resourcesāwhich would not apply to most new startupsāis ā¦ questionable.
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So, how long does it take on the average to start a b2c/consumer internet/ecommerce from this part of the world?
From a developers stand point its so untrue, I believe the longtime you take in developing an app without abandoning it shows how passionate you are about the success of the app.
Seriously, you have a very fine and informative write up here, though you would be on point if you had passed this piece under a topic like āKeep Innovatingā, āProductivity- The 21st Century Work placeā or āWinning Teams Keep Innovatingāā¦
The truth is you had a very good experience while at Konga but the write up should not be a death knell on new wannabe inventors or Start up teams who probably are here to seek knowledge and depond on your posits here to build capacityā¦
All the same, Thumps up!
Shortest MVP Iāve seen was built in 7 weeks.
https://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-weeks-how-we-did-it
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thatās it right there
From the post: āthis resulted in building the first version in evenings and weekends over a period of 7 weeksā. If he worked on it fully, it really would have come down to around a month.
By the way, the first iteration of Fonenode was done in like a month.
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Lol. We are not bragging or saying it is impossible. Hell, startups have been launched in a weekend. But to say the owner isnāt passionate enough to drive it if not done in a month is just wrong. Who makes these rules anyway?
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One of the key learning I have learnt going through this entrepreneurial journey is to know that there is really no rule, all put succinctly, know which rule to ignore or follow.
@kehers
So, does that mean that in Fonenode case itās possible to launch in 30Days?
@Clive
Itās could have been possible had he focus mainly on it.
@xolubi Talking about passion, I think that when passion drives and overtakes nothing can stand your way, not even time! So, you want to re-read the tweet and pick out āprobablyā from it.
I have a couple of ideas that I think are good but Iām not passionate enough (at this time) to push them. So, your passion must be on the same level with your building process to make it happen within 30 and it can as well be on a level to launch in 90 or even 365Days. All good!
The Question is, how bad do you want it?
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That just makes your argument for you, doesnāt it?
How about passion on a level to launch within 24 hours? Does that make your 30-day MVP any less a product of passion? Bruh.
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