Prototype & MVP : Lancer une version test avec un minimum de budget
Prototype & MVP : Lancer une version test avec un minimum de budget
Walid Bergaoui
Prototype & MVP: Launch a Test Version on a Minimal Budget
You have an idea that keeps you up at night — a product, a service, a market hunch. The temptation is strong to build it all at once, sinking months and your entire savings into it. This program teaches you the opposite: launch a first test version with a minimal budget, to find out quickly whether your idea holds up. The MVP — Minimum Viable Product — is not a stripped-down version: it's the most targeted version possible, the one that validates your key assumptions before you've spent everything.
The approach is concrete and action-oriented. You start by clearly stating the problem you solve and for whom, then by turning your certainties into testable assumptions. You identify THE essential feature — the one that carries all the value — and push everything else into the background. You then explore the range of forms an MVP can take: a clickable mockup, a landing page, a demo video, a simple prototype, or even a service delivered by hand without a single line of code. You put it in front of real users, you gather honest feedback, you measure what matters, and you adjust — or you pivot without regret.
By the end of the journey, you walk away with an MVP that's built, field-tested, and a clear-eyed decision grounded in facts rather than guesswork. You'll have saved months of effort and avoided wasting your resources on features nobody wanted. Above all, you'll have gained an entrepreneur's instinct that will serve you on every project: learn fast, spend little, decide right.
What you walk away with
Startup Lab doesn't just train you: we support serious projects all the way to launch.
Your specifications, on us — Startup Lab can provide the specifications for your MVP free of charge as part of the training program.
A possible co-investment — for certain promising projects, we can co-invest by taking a percentage of equity shares.
End-to-end support — MVP design, writing the specifications, user testing, analyzing feedback and refining the solution.
Program — 10 sessions of 1 hour
A thoroughly hands-on journey: from the problem to validate all the way to a field-tested MVP and a clear-eyed decision. At every step, you spend the minimum to learn the maximum.
Module 1 — Frame it before you build it (sessions 1-3)
1. The MVP, the mindset — what a Minimum Viable Product really is (and what it isn't); why testing fast, at lower cost and lower risk changes everything for an entrepreneur.
2. Problem, customer and value proposition — stating the problem you solve, for precisely whom, and the unique value you bring.
3. Turning your ideas into testable assumptions — distinguishing certainties from bets; listing your key assumptions and defining what would validate or invalidate them.
Module 2 — Designing the minimal MVP (sessions 4-6)
4. Finding THE essential feature — isolating the function that carries the core value and writing the specifications for the bare essentials; deferring everything else.
5. Choosing the right form of MVP — mockup, landing page, demo video, simple prototype or hand-delivered service: selecting the least costly format that answers your question.
6. Building your MVP on a small budget — assembling your test version with simple, accessible tools, without heavy development.
Module 3 — Testing on the market (sessions 7-8)
7. Putting the MVP in users' hands — recruiting your first testers, running user tests and asking the right questions to get honest feedback.
8. Measuring what truly matters — choosing a few simple metrics, telling the noise from the signal and reading what the market is really telling you.
Module 4 — Deciding and moving forward (sessions 9-10)
9. Analyzing feedback, adjusting or pivoting — interpreting the results, improving the solution or changing course without regret, grounded in the facts.
10. The roadmap after the MVP — prioritizing the next features, preparing the full specifications and charting the path to the first real version.
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