MVPs and venture studio
An MVP is the smallest product real users can use, built to test whether the idea works. Our Blueprint takes a product from a day-zero repository to first paying customers in eight weeks, and fixed-scope sprints of two to four weeks start at $8,000. We also build our own products with the same team and method.
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- Virtual Care & Health SaaSA Multi-Vendor Telehealth Care EcosystemConsolidating five disconnected health vendors and authentication silos into a single sign-on (SSO) architecture with automated payment-to-care pipelines and lifecycle triggers.~2.5 WksDeal to Kickoff
- Connected Health & IoT DiagnosticsA Medical Hardware & Non-Invasive Diagnostics StartupConnected health IoT application and telemetry cloud integrating with proprietary non-invasive medical sensors for continuous wellness monitoring.
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Terms explained
- MVP (minimum viable product)The smallest version of a product that real users can use, built to find out whether the idea works before investing more.
- Proof of concept (POC)A small build that tests whether something can be done technically, before committing to a full product. A POC asks 'can we?', where an MVP asks 'do users want it?'.
- Venture studioA company that builds and launches software products and ventures in-house, sharing its engineers and playbook across each one.
- Technical co-founderA founder who leads engineering and shares ownership of the company. Founders without one often use a fractional CTO or a studio to build the first version.
- Fractional CTOA senior technology leader who works part-time for a company, setting architecture, hiring and engineering practice without a full-time hire.
- SaaS (software as a service)Software sold by subscription and run by the vendor in the cloud, so customers use it in a browser without installing or hosting it.
- Product-market fitWhen a product meets a real market need strongly enough that customers keep using it and recommend it.
- Discovery phaseAn early stage of research, scoping and design that turns an idea into a clear plan and estimate before building starts.
- Fixed-price contractAn agreement for a defined scope at an agreed price. Predictable for the buyer, but changes to scope are renegotiated.
- Time and materialsA contract billed on the hours and resources used. Flexible when scope will change, with less price certainty than fixed price.