About this Event
You can build almost anything now. That’s the problem.
No-code and AI mean a founder can go from idea to fully featured product in a weekend. The friction that used to force you to check whether anyone wanted it has gone. So most founders build first and find out later, often after months of work and a product nobody asked for.
This session puts a stop sign in that gap.
Richard Godfrey has spent fifteen years building software for startups at Rocketmakers, which means he has also watched a lot of it get built for no good reason. He’ll take you through what to build first to learn the most, how to tell a technical risk from a market risk, and the cheapest, fastest route to a straight answer. Sometimes that’s a prototype. Often it’s a form, a spreadsheet, or a process you run by hand.
What we’ll cover
- Scoping an MVP that answers your riskiest question, not your most interesting one
- Telling technical risk apart from market risk, and knowing which to K*ll first
- Build, measure, learn, applied to your actual roadmap
- Build versus buy, and when neither is the answer yet
- The cheapest test that still gives you something you can act on
Who it’s for
Early-stage founders, solo or in a small team, pre-revenue or early revenue. Especially useful if you are technical or coming out of research and you already know you can build it. The question is whether you should.
Event venue & nearby stays
Sloane Robinson Building, Sloane Robinson Building, Bristol, United Kingdom
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