You have an idea. You’re excited. Maybe you’ve even sketched it on a napkin or spent late nights imagining how it will change the world. Then comes the question: Should I build an MVP ? It sounds like the obvious first step. But here is the honest truth: a Minimum Viable Product isn’t right for everyone at least, not right away. Before you hire developers or start writing a spec sheet, it helps to ask yourself three specific questions. The answers will tell you whether you should. 1. Do you know the one thing your product must do? An MVP isn’t a smaller version of your big vision. It isn’t your full app with half the features missing. A true MVP is a learning tool. If you can’t articulate your product’s single core job in one sentence, you aren’t ready for an MVP. You’re still in the problem-definition stage. And that’s okay - that’s exactly where strategy comes in before a single line of code is written. 2. Are you trying to build, or are you trying to learn? This is the most common t...