Profitable from Day One: Designing Your MVP for Margin (Part 5 / 5 in Cash Flow Playbook for Founders Series)

​→ Build lean, charge early, and validate price before product
→ Case studies from SaaS, digital products, and marketplaces

​Description:
The biggest mistake founders make? Building for months before charging customers. In this final session, Ankit Nayal shows you how to design MVPs that aren’t just lean — they’re profitable from the start.

​Using examples from SaaS, digital products, and marketplaces, you’ll learn how to validate pricing, charge early, and ensure every sale drives margin.

​What you’ll learn:
- How to design a Minimum Viable Product that customers will pay for.
- Why charging early validates both product and pricing.
- Case studies of MVPs that scaled profitably across industries.
- How to avoid building “feature-heavy” products that burn cash.
- A founder’s checklist for building margin into your MVP.About

​Ankit Nayal:
Ankit is the Founder & CEO of Flamme – The Couples App, and Lead Mentor for Techstars and India Accelerator. He engineered Flamme to industry-leading retention numbers and has been featured in TechCrunch, Harvard Crimson, The Guardian, NY Weekly, and more. He helped a European HaaS scale-up grow from $40M Series B to $200M Series C, and previously built and exited a RMB 15M consumer business in China.