MVP
Also: Minimum Viable Product
The smallest thing you can build to test whether customers actually want what you think they want.
The point is learning, not polish — an MVP that teaches you you're wrong has done its job.
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Product-market fit
The point where you've built something a market genuinely wants and pulls out of you faster than you can supply it.
Pivot
A deliberate change of direction — product, market or model — while keeping what you've learned.
Technical debt
The future cost of shortcuts taken to ship fast now — code and decisions you'll have to revisit.
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