Our first MVP took one year to build. Our second MVP took two months. Here's what we learned. We have all heard the quote, if you aren't embarrassed by your first version, then you've launched too late. But how true is it? And why do you need to launch early? What should you launch with? This episode is about launching your first product and how to do it the right way. Welcome to Just Grow with it. I've always

been a little impulsive. I get an idea and just go with it. But that's the thing about life and

business. You're always growing, learning, and figuring it out as you go. Welcome to Just Grow with

It. The podcast where I share lessons I've learned as a founder and creator, the mistakes,

the pivots, and the wins, and how

staying consistent can change everything. So if you're ready to grow with me, let's get into it.

Let's talk about an MVP and what even is an MVP. An MVP stands for minimal viable product,

and it's essentially exactly what it sounds like. It is the earliest version, the simplest version of your

product that is usable and that can be out in the market. It's not where you want to be a year from now.

It's where you can start and actually get customers to interact with it and use the product

in its very, very earliest form. Essentially, it is the simplest way to solve a problem.

For example, at RELA, we wanted social media teams to be able to plan their content, get approvals,

and auto post it. That was the simplest way for us to solve the problem of all of the inefficient

tools that were out there and all of the different tools social media managers and social media teams were using. Of course, we wanted to build a suite of features, but we knew that that was

a mistake to start with a bunch of features if we didn't even know if the simplest problem wasn't

able to be solved by us, or wasn't a big enough problem that people even wanted to use our product.

We knew that eventually we wanted to launch with a bunch of different features problem that people even wanted to use our product. We knew that eventually we

wanted to launch with a bunch of different features, but we also wanted to launch and start

testing the product, and we wanted to get the product in the market. So the simplest way to solve

the problem that social media teams were facing, and the quickest way for us to actually put a product

in the market, was to really strip down the features back to the

core problem and launch with the simplest features possible. So social media teams could create an

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