The MVP Is Dead — How to Avoid Wasting 6 Months Building a Crappy Version of Your Final Product

Lean Startup and the idea of building MVPs was a great first step toward better startup efficiency, but it didn’t go far enough.

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
4 min readJan 4, 2024

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In 2011, Eric Ries published a book called The Lean Startup. In it, he popularized a…

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com