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Concierge service MVPs

Concierge service MVPs

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Concierge service MVPs

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- Hey guys. Welcome back to the course. Let's talk about concierge MVPs. As a refresher, concierge-style MVPs are where you manually help your users accomplish their goals as a means of validating whether or not they have a need for what you're doing in the first place. This is different than the Wizard of Oz MVP in that you don't actually build out anything. Just some way of connecting your users to you to get their participation, and then secondly, you are up front in this scenario about the fact that you don't yet have this feature. Those are two key distinctions between the two. Concierge MVPs are very common ways to test the needs of your users, even in big companies. The advantages are that you can run them almost in secret. All you have to do is email a batch of users and manage those relationships directly. You don't even have to add any fake buttons to your website or build any fake pages. Another advantage is…

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