Entrepreneurship, Startups, Abrtact Minimum Viable Products

Entrepreneurship in a Lean Startup is a series of MVPs (Minimum Viable Products).

Can MVPs b abstract?
Yes!

Examples:

• If Apple can launch a smartphone without Find or Cut-and-Paste, what can you cut out of your product requirements?
• USV-backed foursquare uses Google Docs to collect customer feedback. No code, no maintenance. 
• Fliggo sells it before they build it. 
• Grockit puts up a notify-me-when-you-release form on steroids. 
• Auto e-commerce site uses manualation and flintstoning for their backend. 
• Semiconductor company uses 5 people and FPGAs to build a $100M semiconductor product line. 
• Consumer company uses fake screenshots to sell their product. 
• Allicator uses Facebook ads: “Ditch Digger? Feeling spread thin? Click here to complete a survey and tell us about it.” 
• ManyWheels uses Microsoft Visio to build clickable web demos for prospective customers. 
• Cloudfire uses a classic customer development problem presentation. 
• RightNow uses phone calls to iterate on their MVP. 
• The team that started Isilon spent a year meeting high level execs and researchers and engineers around the world to understand the broad requirements of the mobile industry.

Source:
http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product-examples