What you need to succeed in a startup is not expertise in startups. - Paul Graham
It's a good sign when you cautiously suggest some ridiculously ambitious future plan to a startup, and discover they've already thought a lot about it.
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Did this make its way into your teachings about how to conduct YC interviews? Because it was a feature of mine and from my reckoning, most of my batchmates as well.
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When you do that in interviews it's usually not so much to test the founders as to explore the potential of the idea.
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Shower thoughts FTW
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It's even better when they get the feedback and try to see how they can improve their original plan
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How about when the startup idea you were trying to bootstrap is already existing out there but with such a poor execution that it is ridiculously low-profile
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If you're confident that you can do a better job and have the resources to execute, then go for it.
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In a case like this, what differentiates start-ups that are new and will be successful from the ones which already thought about it?
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It's so much easier these days that everyone has got answers already
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