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...which is why MVPs are more or less useless within the context of larger companies.

Larger companies often have that down. They know how to identify a market need. It is rare that a larger company is going to go into a market that hasn't already shown some sort of proof.

It is not guaranteed that the public will want your product, but an MVP isn't going to do much there anyway.

The MVP is for small companies for multiple reasons.

What the article outlines is not a bad first approximation for potential new products in larger organizations.

Are you suggesting that large companies never build products that are useless? Never launch anything that nobody uses? Never waste effort?

If they do, then perhaps they should focus their development on waste reduction, rather than prematurely optimise for problems which aren't there yet, and which may never exist, like end-of-lifing a product that doesn't even exist yet...

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