Metacast: Behind the scenes

41. Differentiating vs. table-stakes features, MLP vs. MVP, YC application

What features do you build first - table stakes or what makes you differentiated? What's the difference between an MVP and an MLP? Is it worth applying to YC? ...and a few recommendations of books and podcasts that we're into these days.

Chapters

  • 03:40 - Differentiating features vs. table stakes features
  • 06:58 - MVP vs. MLP
  • 14:00 - The MAYA principle
  • 16:57 - We applied to YC
  • 23:31 - Building a landing page with Carrd
  • 26:22 - Chaos engineering for customer empathy
  • 31:56 - The Three-Body Problem trilogy
  • 35:28 - Elon Musk's biography
  • 38:50 - Blackberry
  • 41:37 - Podcasts we listen to
  • 45:00 - Remembering Reply-All

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