When considering ideas, asking “How might it work?” is more interesting and constructive than asking “Why will it fail?”
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Replying to @devonzuegel
Or even better, what might it mutate into? What fabulous thing is this the initial form of? That's usually a question I try to answer the first time I meet a YC startup. I only get an answer half the time, but the answers are sometimes really surprising.
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Replying to @paulg @devonzuegel
How often are the founders surprised by your answers to this?
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Replying to @mattknox @devonzuegel
More often than not. It's very common for people doing new things (generally, not just in startups) not to see the full implications initially. It's arguably a point in your favor if you can't, because it means what you're doing has a lot of potential.
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Replying to @paulg @devonzuegel
Do you find that those startups do better? It seems like it would be a very promising signal on the idea, but not necessarily on the founder (except inasmuch as they had a good idea).
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There is, unfortunately, no correlation. How startups do depends almost entirely on the founders.
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