Closing the Gap, a community recently launched by my good friend Johannis, is dedicated to fostering mutual understanding between investors and founders--a role for which Johannis is uniquely suited. Johannis, who studied alongside me at ESCP Europe, has an extensive entrepreneurial background. He launched, bought, and sold multiple companies, experiencing
Do you have ideas for a new app or product? I currently have an idea for a combined note-taking and newsletter app. Instead of talking to a developer and attempting to build it, I try to create it with existing apps first. This approach has many advantages: * You can build
After reading this article I replaced the term Minimal Viable Product (MVP) with Simple Lovable Complete (SLC) in my vocabulary. Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. “MVP” is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can “learn.” SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning,