How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School

          [Music] all right hello everyone I've got a lot of content to get through so I'm gonna move fast Buckle in if you are looking for a startup idea right now I'm going to try to help but more importantly I'm going to try to give you the conceptual tools to think about startup ideas in a sophisticated way the way that we think about them at YC here's the thing uh no one not even YC knows for sure which ideas will succeed and in any case if your idea succeeds has much to do with how well you execute as your initial idea anyway but certain ideas are much more likely to succeed than others and so my goal here is to help you stack the deck in your favor by starting with a promising idea the advice in this talk came from several places first I analyzed the top 100 YC companies by evaluation and I looked at how they all got their idea so I started with some hard quantitative data on how recent billion dollar companies actually came up with their idea it also draws on a classic essay by Paul Graham that I really recommend it's called how to get startup ideas um it also comes from helping YC companies that pivot in the middle of the batch and learning over the years what advice helps them to find a new good startup idea and then finally it comes from Reading thousands of YC applications that we rejected and looking at the mistakes that caused good Founders to come up with bad ideas and those are the mistakes I want to help you all avoid this Talk's got three parts first I'm going to tel…
          

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