I'm a full-stack developer, I don't have particular needs about the realization of the MVP, I'm indipendent, I'd like just to not lose much money if the things goes wrong.. I mean how to have an income before the "success"? Which condition/warranties should I ask to the investors ?
I'm a complete newbie here, so any useful link is welcome.
I looked at some accelerators, but I don't trust them much.. It seems they just rent me a desk monthly and organize some fluffy events.. PS: I'm Europe-based
Launch. Get users. Get <i>feedback</i>. And listen to it.<p>Tell all your friends, family, neighbours, co-workers, etc. Use services like Betali.st, AngelList, Startupli.st, forums, Show HN, Reddit, StumbleUpon, pay for adverts if you have a budget for it, just get the word out there and try to get users coming to you and looking at the app.<p>The fact is you've done the easy bit. Building a product is <i>easy</i>. Marketing it is the hard part. Persuading people that it's worth using is difficult. The reason that you're considering investment or accelerators is because you're trying to delay having to do any selling. Investment capital is a shield against the reality of actually putting your work in front of people and having them say it's brilliant/meh/awful. If you have $thousands in the bank you don't have to suffer the pain of talking to people. The fact is though, you will have to do that at some point, so you might as well use all the free marketing channels you have access to right now.<p>As it is, it's unlikely any investor will put money in now. You clearly don't need money to build the app because you've done that. You don't need money to test the market because there are ways to do that for free. Any investor will talk to you, but they'll be looking for proof points along the lines of traction - conversion ratios, beta sign-ups, active users, and so on. They won't necessarily be looking for revenue (pre-revenue is better to invest in because the company has less value). If you can get to revenue before needing investment money you'll be in a <i>much</i> better position should you decide to go down that road.