Whether you're a product owner at an enterprise or a CEO steering a startup through its product-market fit phase, you're likely wrestling with budget constraints. Every decision must be considered, particularly in tough times when optimizing every penny and ensuring data-backed justification becomes a standard. This principle is fundamental to the Lean Startup methodology, where validating your idea is essential for the success of any digital product. In this article, we delve into various strategies aimed at optimizing your expenditure on product development through rigorous idea validation. Continue reading to find out which approach best aligns with your needs: proof of concept, prototype, or MVP?

What should the first version of your app be – a prototype or MVP? What’s the difference between them? Check our article!

The minimum viable product (MVP) is the is a core element of the product development approach we use at Boldare. However, there can be confusion about just what an MVP is and what it is for. Here, we lay out the Boldare take on MVPs and how we use them to achieve maximum results for our clients.

The Elephant’s Trunk reached out to us for a reason. They needed to validate their business idea with users. The idea itself was one-of-a-kind - they wanted to publish and sell personalized children’s books that embrace human diversity and help kids feel included. The solution was to build the first version of a book ordering platform and check how the market responded to it. Read on to find out about our approach to building an MVP.

If you’re involved in digital product development, you probably know what a minimum viable product is. But what about a minimum marketable product? What’s the difference? When is a minimum marketable product necessary, and where does it fit in your product development process? Read on to find out.

In this article, we cover the MVP basics and delve into issues such as research, process and the importance of knowing why you’re building an MVP. See our How to build a Minimum Viable Product Guide!

Every larger company usually has extensive education and training needs for its employees. The larger the company, the more time and effort HR and training departments tend to need to plan, organize and deliver various training sessions. Without a suitable digital solution in use, the process is expensive in terms of time and resources. In this case study, you will see how we helped a international media company improve their training process, saving approximately €70,000 monthly in people’s capacity, with an MVP application and Tableau implementation.

Here is an example of how we helped a US company - TeamAlert - with the transition of their digital app from the MVP stage to the product-market fit phase. The process resulted in a 300% increase in the number of users and over 40 new features. Read about our approach, steps taken, and client outcomes.

How does a minimum viable product (MVP) stage dovetail with the lean startup approach? Can it boost a new business’s chance of survival and success? See our article!

Back in 2019, we needed a tool that would help us to conduct various meetings online, mainly scrum retrospectives. It was supposed to be lightweight, versatile and easy to use. There are plenty of great applications on the market, but none of them matched our needs perfectly, so we decided to build a tool that would solve our problems. We are a product development and design company, after all!

This article covers the five most common concerns we’ve encountered in potential clients and customers when we talk to them about MVPs (and answer them!).

The idea of the MVP has been around in the business world for a while and it is inseparably linked with lean startup methodology. Before we jump into the details, let’s focus on a practical definition of a Minimum Viable Product to help us to understand what’s really important here.

The MVP is a core element (perhaps the core element) of our lean startup approach to product development. The minimum viable product is not a prototype. Nor is it a full-scale product ready for market. The MVP is an experiment, a way to test real-life user responses to an aspect of the solution being developed.