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Product & Technology
Product design, UX, technology architecture, MVPs and the engineering decisions that either enable or constrain scale.
Designing and building products and platforms that customers use and that can carry a business as it grows.
What this topic covers
MVP developmentProduct design and UXTechnology architectureAgile deliveryProduct iteration
Build Stories
Why we built Quva: a venture builder creating its own technology
Quva started as the platform behind GCV Invest, then became its own brand and licensing model. Here is why a venture builder built its own technology.
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How to build an MVP that actually proves something
Define the question first, scope to the evidence, and read the result honestly. How we approach MVPs in the Incubate stage.
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What product-market fit actually looks like
Five observable signals of product-market fit, why revenue alone is not one of them, and what to do when you have some but not all.
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- UX for products people have to use at workCreate
- Prototyping: paper, clickable and functionalIncubate
- Agile delivery in a venture with no customers yetIncubate
- Buy, build or integrate: early architecture decisionsCreate
- Security and data protection from day oneIncubate