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Building a Minimum Viable Product? You're Probably Doing it Wrong

Harvard Business Review

For example, Drew Houston''s March 2008 Digg video for Dropbox generated 70K signups for a product that hadn''t been released yet — and went a long way in confirming product-market fit. But most businesses fail because our assumptions about customer demand are wrong — because of market risk. Test market risk first.

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Building a Minimum Viable Product? You’re Probably Doing it Wrong

Harvard Business Review

For example, Drew Houston’s March 2008 Digg video for Dropbox generated 70K signups for a product that hadn’t been released yet — and went a long way in confirming product-market fit. But most businesses fail because our assumptions about customer demand are wrong — because of market risk.

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The Scope of Supply Chain Management in the Corporate Sector

Strategy Driven

These tools allow them to better grasp the supply chain’s strengths and limitations and discover changing market trends that help them make better strategic decisions. The more complex a supply chain network is, the more vulnerable it is to source and supply disruptions and market risks. Decreased Disruptions.

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Business Can't Solve the World's Problems — But Capitalism Can

Harvard Business Review

create thousands of jobs, improve the quality of goods and services available to consumers, and ultimately raise standards of living." This nonprofit rulebook discriminates against charities in at least five different areas: compensation, marketing, risk taking, time horizons, and capital itself.