[JohanCutych]

Thank you for sharing this valuable lesson!

Few questions to understand the context. At what stage were the startup you worked with mostly?

Did you ever encountered a "proper" hand-off of the MVP? If so, what was it like or what would you suggest?

I guess the idea for me is to have the MVP developed based on getting angel investment and start looking for PMF together with already looking for seed and tech co-founder & inhouse tech team and then after you find the PMF rebuilding it completely anyway.

But you are right that finding PMF is continuous process and might take years and many iterations and the big question is what kind of answers you can get from 1 MVP/prototype built in 3 weeks or so (it should not take longer than that as I agree with what you say - make it as small as possible)

p.s. thanks for the articles, great reading. I agree that before MVP there should be prototypes that validates the hypothesis.

I was inspired by this article btw. https://www.groovehq.com/blog/technical-co-founder

[bramkrom]

Sorry, totally missed this. In case it's still relevant: Stages were all before 500k revenue. So maybe the very successful ones did have their mvp built by someone else, but I just didn't encounter them. As far as proper hand-off concerns - yes, I've seen companies usually deal professionally with their hand-off. That's what their reputation depends on. But the idea of the MVP is not necessarily the product - it's more the first attempt at seeing if you can solve something. Next steps are usually hard to follow up. Seeing as you just do the minimal, you leave out so many things that later on it's just hard to improve on it. I'd want my co-founder to be part of all the initial learning, and so would rather stay put in my job and find a passionate co-founder first before having someone build the mvp. good luck!