# A MVP is TRL6 through TRL8 bundled together This only works when you can iterate on a technology when it’s operationally deployed in a real environment or it is low cost to de-deploy and re-deploy. An MVP is simultaneously * Important in software * The reason it took people a long time to figure out for software because in atomland you can’t get away with doing multiple TRLs at once * Why importing the idea back to atomland is harder than it seems [[§Atomland, Bitland, and Peopleland]] <!-- #evergreen --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/A+MVP+is+TRL6+through+TRL8+bundled+together) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/A+MVP+is+TRL6+through+TRL8+bundled+together)