Date post: | 21-May-2015 |
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What are you testing? Minimum Viable People Minimum Viable Product Minimum Viable Platform
Rif Kiamil - CEO FOODit
I’ve got an idea! I want to build it
Background• Developer/CIO for 12 years for JJ Food
Service
• Did it all & loved it.. Had a amazing team
I’ve got an idea! I want to build it
Day 1 of FOODit• Building a team would take time• Wanted a product now• Just completed reading “Lean
Startup”• I wanted to give up how I did
things in the past and never deal with servers, patching and SQL performance again!
Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
We were not learning how to build a website for restaurants, but how to get restaurants to pay for our services, to be found on Google and get online orders.
Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
Magento
An open source e-commerce platform built on PHP / mySQL. Now owned by eBAY.
Could I have used the features in it to give me a jump start. Pricing, Vouchers, Billing & Tax?
Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
Azure
Could I find a low cost team to work with that could use Azure or an other platform?
Azure / Microsoft is big in India. Can find lots of teams
Read more at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
Google App EngineSince 2008, when App Engine came out I wanted to work on it. It lets you focus on building!
I found a team that was into “Lean Startup” and Google App Engine. The team was http://3wks.com.au/
In Summary..
In Summary.. FOOD is yummy!
“Myspace was written in ColdFusion & Facebook was written in PHP”
• What do you need to learn?
• Will you win due to technology or other factors
• Does your product need access to low level parts of operating system
Be a Pusher ( see Mean Girls - "I'm a Pusher Cady“ )
Learn more about FOODit at http://blog.foodit.com/1to500
Rif Kiamil - CEO FOODit