what are you testing? minimum viable people, minimum viable product or minimum viable platform

What are you testing? Minimum Viable People Minimum Viable Product Minimum Viable Platform

Rif Kiamil - CEO FOODit

I’ve got an idea! I want to build it

Background• Developer/CIO for 12 years for JJ Food

Service

• Did it all & loved it.. Had a amazing team

I’ve got an idea! I want to build it

Day 1 of FOODit• Building a team would take time• Wanted a product now• Just completed reading “Lean

Startup”• I wanted to give up how I did

things in the past and never deal with servers, patching and SQL performance again!

Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

We were not learning how to build a website for restaurants, but how to get restaurants to pay for our services, to be found on Google and get online orders.

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Magento

An open source e-commerce platform built on PHP / mySQL. Now owned by eBAY.

Could I have used the features in it to give me a jump start. Pricing, Vouchers, Billing & Tax?

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Azure

Could I find a low cost team to work with that could use Azure or an other platform?

Azure / Microsoft is big in India. Can find lots of teams

Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

Google App EngineSince 2008, when App Engine came out I wanted to work on it. It lets you focus on building!

I found a team that was into “Lean Startup” and Google App Engine. The team was http://3wks.com.au/

In Summary..

In Summary.. FOOD is yummy!

“Myspace was written in ColdFusion & Facebook was written in PHP”

• What do you need to learn?

• Will you win due to technology or other factors

• Does your product need access to low level parts of operating system

Be a Pusher ( see Mean Girls - "I'm a Pusher Cady“ )

Learn more about FOODit at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500

Rif Kiamil - CEO FOODit