Minimum Viable Network

November 2, 2010 by vcmike

The Lean Startup movement has brought the concept of a “minimum viable product” into the mainstream of startup culture and strategy.  Last weekend an entrepreneur I met introduced me to the concept of “minimum viable network.”  In a nutshell, the idea is more or less just that you need a critical mass before a social network becomes useful.  And where,  as with sites like Yelp, the network requires some degree of physical proximity, this critical mass must be obtained in each region the network operates.

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