Eric Ries and I recently sat down to talk about minimum viable products: the product with just the necessary features to get money and feedback from early adopters.

The minimum viable product (MVP) is often an ad on Google. Or a PowerPoint slide. Or a dialog box. Or a landing page. You can often build it in a day or a week.

I recorded the interview and synchronized it with some simple slides below. That’s my favorite way to consume the audio. You can also find a transcript and stand-alone audio below. Eric also highlighted some excerpts from the conversation on Lessons Learned and put together his own presentation on MVPs. Let me know what you think — I’m especially interested if you like the synchronized audio and slides.

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Another Post on related matter

http://venturehacks.com/articles/sell-it-before-you-build-it

Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Inventor, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

I am starting this blog as I move into the phase of being an angel investor. It is my ambition, God willing, to replicate Y Combinator model (www.ycombinator.com) in India.

Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy (Bengali: প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায়) was a Bengali academician, a chemist and entrepreneur. He was born on August 2, 1861 in the village Raruli-Katipara in Khulna District (now in Bangladesh) and died on June 16, 1944. He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India’s first pharmaceutical company. He is the author of A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century (1902).

He was mentor to prominent Indian scientists like Meghnad Saha.

He is my idol in sense of being a

• Scholar
• Scientist
• Entrepreneur
• Mentor
• Philanthropist