National Incubation Center Hyderabad is hosting a session on building a minimum viable product led byEhtesham Ul Hassan Malik, machine learning engineer at NYRIX, aimed squarely at founders who risk spending months building something the market never actually wanted. The session opens with a warning familiar to anyone who has watched early stage startups fail not from a lack of effort but from misdirected effort, framing an MVP not as a smaller version of the final product but as a deliberate tool for discovering what actually works before a founder commits significant time and resources to a full build.
The session will break down how to build an MVP from the ground up, treating the process as a discipline in its own right rather than an informal first attempt at a product. Central to that discipline is deciding what actually belongs in an MVP, a question that trips up many first time founders who either strip away features essential to testing their core hypothesis or, more commonly, include far more than necessary because they are reluctant to ship something that feels incomplete. Malik’s background as a machine learning engineer positions him to speak to this tension from a technical build perspective, an angle particularly relevant for founders building AI or data driven products where the temptation to over-engineer an MVP before validating demand is especially strong.
Getting the MVP in front of real users forms the final and arguably most important component of the session, since a minimum viable product that never reaches actual users provides no more insight than a well constructed guess. The session frames this step as where genuine learning happens, treating user feedback not as validation to be sought but as data to be tested against, a distinction that shapes how founders should interpret both enthusiastic and lukewarm reactions from early testers. Organizers frame the core lesson of the session around a mistake they see recur often, that the biggest risk many founders face is not moving too slowly but building too much before they have tested nearly enough, front loading effort into features and polish before confirming that anyone wants the underlying product at all.
Interested founders can register through this link to attend the session. The event builds on National Incubation Center Hyderabad’s broader MVP focused programming, including its EvolvX pre-incubation track designed specifically to help founders refine ideas and develop functioning MVPs, and is supported by Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Ignite National Technology Fund, PTCL, LMKT, and Tech Destination Pakistan.
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