“The thing about Minimum Viable Products is that while you decide what’s Minimum, the customer decides if it’s Viable,” writes David Bland, a consultant and early Lean Startup evangelist. “You’ll need to lead your team out of the trough of sorrow after they experience this despair for the first time. Minimum Viable Products are optimized for learning, not for scaling. This is one of the hardest things to convey to people who’ve spent their lives building to build, not building to learn.”7
