It seems you are confused about what a MVP is supposed to be. It's not supposed to be the first thing you are making that will allow you to test your idea and raise funds. The first thing you are supposed to do is a Business Plan. And that involves doing market research, pitching your idea to investors, interviewing customers and eventually (maybe) doing a small mock-up / proof-of-concept product but that is not a MVP. The MVP comes once you have got your seed funding, whether you are bootstrapping with your own funds or not. The MVP is an actual product. It's just the absolute minimum and most basic yet functional product that you can get away with. If you didn't have a business plan and went head down into developing your MVP then that more than explains why things didn't work out the way you thought they would.
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