Kevin Hale from Y Combinator – How to Evaluate Startup Ideas

Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started.

Proposing to solve PROBLEMS which are :
– Popular
– Growing
– Urgent
– Expensive
– Mandatory
– Frequent

Using a SOLUTION :
– Which is dedicated to the solve a known Problem

Making sure you have a unique INSIGHT :
– you are a Founder
– you have an ever growing Market
– you have a special Product
– you are able to grow and natively sustain your customer Acquisition
– you have a sustainable Monopoly

All these using a winning formula :
BEHAVIOR = MOTIVATION + ABILITY + TRIGGER

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