Instructions
Scope definition is where most MVPs go wrong. The instinct is to include everything that seems necessary — and on some level, everything does seem necessary when you think about it. The discipline of MVP scoping is learning to think not about what's needed for a complete product, but about what's needed to test the thing you most need to test.
Start from the success criteria and the riskiest assumptions. What features are genuinely necessary to produce those outcomes? Cut everything else. Then look at what's left and cut again. The question to keep asking is: if this feature weren't there, would it prevent the MVP from doing its job? If not, it probably doesn't belong in the first version.
The 'cut until it hurts' instruction is intentional. Most founders under-cut their MVP b...
