Assessment of Minimum Viable Product Techniques: A Literature Review

Although the minimum viable product (MVP) concept provides a means to test ideas and hypothesis at early stages, it does not indicate that it is easy to build. MVP tests whether your idea solves a real problem that customers are willing to pay for. In order to reach the stage of building a product that people want to use and pay for, we need to make sure product passes certain tests. In turn, MVP techniques/methods are designed not only to test technical questions about the product, but also to assess the viability of business model hypothesis. Once the hypothesis that needs to be tested with MVP is determined, there are some methods that can be used to get reliable data from actual users and utilize it. In this article I do a comprehensive review of literature to figure out which methods and techniques are used in MVP. My goal is to identify range of methods while providing strengths and weaknesses of such methods. Finally, I conclude the research by providing some suggestions for future research

International trade and investment in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

How should one analyze the economic relations between advanced capitalist systems and other economic systems? So far the economists have mainly concentrated their efforts on studying the relations between developed capitalist countries (henceforth DCs) and the less developed countries (henceforth LDCs) of the world. There has not, however, been a significant effort in devising a systematic theory of economic relations between DCs and the socialist countries. I intend for my dissertation to be a contribution in that direction. It is concerned with investigating the role of international trade and investment in the countries of Eastern Europe. In the process of observing the economic relations of the DCs and LDCs, two major schools of thought have emerged: the dependency school and the diffusionist (mainstream neo-classical) school. The latter, in general, sees the positive aspects of the links between DCs and the poor countries. The dependency perspective, on the other hand, argues that the problems of the poor (peripheral) countries are, in fact, their economic relations with the DCs (center). The exploitation by the center draws off most of the surplus that otherwise might have been used in the process of industrialization of the poor countries. My dissertation begins by examining how these two schools of thought have been theoretically successful in incorporating yet another dimension of the economic relations between different economic systems--the relations between the DCs and the socialist countries. In addition, my dissertation will also focus on another approach which I will refer to as the Eastern European approach. In the final chapter I will try to empirically verify the validity of the theoretical investigations of these schools. My conclusion is that although all the approaches discussed in my dissertation make some contribution to understanding East-West economic relations, none are entirely successful in presenting an accurate picture of such economic relations

Tracking People’s Movements by RFID Implants

Assume it is 2050. There is no place and time which cannot be tracked. There is nothing that anybody can hide. Everything has an identity number in a central database in United States and it is connected to internet. Spatial relationship of objects can be measured. It is real time city where anything can be tracked. It is obvious that one is sitting on a chair, the chair is in a room and the room is located on the thirtieth floor of a skyscraper in Manhattan. Rolex Company wants to measure the density of its watches which has been bought by customers in Brooklyn. They want to be more specific and find the percentage of Asian people who have their watches on their hand at this moment in Brooklyn. They narrow down their scope and apply apartment price to this measurement. Now Rolex can make decision about its new employee who is going to be employed in that area. According to previous researches the new staff must be a female and be aware of Chinese culture. She has to be a little conservative because Rolex has found the majority of its customers in that area are rich Chinese people who are so conservative. This science fiction story will be feasible if the identity of everything can be scanned at any time. That identity can be a code which comes with goods and people from the first day of their lives. Newborn babies will not be brought out of hospitals without identity code. New goods and products will not be accepted by sellers. Nowadays it is happening. Babies have identity code and goods have bar code. The question is how these codes can be alive and be used in a real time city. In this article the nature of these controversial codes will be discussed and some examples of their application in transportation planning and urban planning will be mentioned