The minimum viable product is a product with the minimum viable feature set to get usage and therefore feedback from an early adopter audience.  (This idea was originally popularized by Eric Ries.)

We’ll come back to that.  I promise.  But haven’t you always wanted a blog?

I have always wanted a blog.

Why have I always wanted a blog?

- I want to write, and writing has many intrinsic good qualities.

- I want to experiment with getting out there on the social web.  I read a lot of blogs,  I really enjoy a lot of blogs, and I have learned many truly interesting things from blogs.  Now I can contribute to the knowledge that’s out there.

- I want to meet more people in the startup community.

- I’m one of the few lean startup/customer development people I’ve heard of in mobile, so I might be able to share some good knowledge.

Being the student of customer development/lean entrepreneurship I am, I have decided to launch the minimum viable blog.

(It will not be a true MVP, because there will be real content, and it will look acceptable, because blogs are aesthetic projects as well as products.)

So, it may suck.

In fact, it may suck for a while.

But if you tell me why it sucks, I’ll change it.

So here’s what I’ll do: I’ll write a few posts.  And you can tell me what you like or don’t like.

(Actual posts!  If it was really minimum viable, there’d just be post titles on Twitter with bit.ly links.)

I know, right?  But I have that much good stuff to get out there.

And whichever one you spend the longest time on/most people read, I will move in that direction.

And if it sucks, tell me why.  And we’ll fix it.  And then, you’ll like it.