One of YC's innovations is to use the founders themselves to do technical due diligence on their own idea.
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And while I would not have guessed it, with sufficient practice you can do this in a 10 minute conversation.
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This is not only more efficient, but is the only strategy that works as ideas spread beyond pure tech. Who could you ask to vet Airbnb?
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If Airbnb founders were domain experts in the accommodation business, they would most likely never have started Airbnb in the first place.
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What you mean is I suppose "problem insiders".
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Can't be a domain expert in a market that doesn't exist yet / domain experts don't see beyond their legacy bubble. Beginner's mind is best.
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expertise brings legacy muck with it. Some aren't too attached to it but many are.
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on a) maybe the question is if they care about the problem deeply and why. Domain expertise is a tricky matter.
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It can be hard to assess if some actually is a domain expert or if they just think they are.
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How do you ask them to vet the idea? How do you cause them to not just agree with their own bias? What pushes it to true due diligence?
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