One of YC's innovations is to use the founders themselves to do technical due diligence on their own idea.
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VCs traditionally sent (probably still send) ideas to outside "experts" to be vetted.
But if you can tell both (a) if founders are domain experts and (b) if they're telling the truth, you can use them to vet the 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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How do you do it? And do you think a person can do it to oneself, like debugging by explaining the problem to a random inanimate object?
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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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It can be hard to assess if some actually is a domain expert or if they just think they are.
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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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What you mean is I suppose "problem insiders".
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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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expertise brings legacy muck with it. Some aren't too attached to it but many are.
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