Partner Profile : MVP Development
How do you build a Minimum Viable Product when you don’t have the (right) tech skills in your startup team?
The partner network in the Canopy Community helps our members to solve problems quicker and better. Each partner is well known before we recommend them. You can be sure of a trusted partner who is startup friendly and who is a proactive contributor to the community as a whole. These partners are “citizen organisation”. The founders of these partner companies are members of #tribe.
Problem
How do you build a Minimum Viable Product when you don’t have the (right) tech skills in your startup team?
Solution
Outsource to a startup friendly dev house or startup studio. Their tech experience speeds up the journey and saves you from learning the lessons that have already been learned so many times before you.
You might consider help in the form of:
CTO as a Service
User Experience / Design
Product Management
Development outsourcing
Test and QA outsourcing
Full team outsourcing.
Commercial models that you can consider include
Time and materials
Fixed price
Equity / options
Future revenue share
Hybrid cash/equity.
Partner options
India - Rhibhus - Speak with Manoj
Portugal - Dengun - Speak with Bruno
UK - HiYield - Speak with David
Canopy reflections
It’s not easy to work with a third party development company if you’ve not done it before. The trick to it all is: trust and communication.
Don’t assume that everything you think of will fit into the scope of budget you have now.
Start things small and then listen hard. Work with the outsource company on an agile and iterative product development cycle - that is driven by the feedback and priorities of your users.