One of YC's innovations is to use the founders themselves to do technical due diligence on their own idea.
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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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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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The best I can do in 140 chars is: you ask how and why they started working on this particular idea.
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Would be great to have >140. :) Do you think one can do it to oneself/cofounders? Or does it need pattern-matching data/other?
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What takes more time in the 10 minutes; Identifying if they are a domain expert or identifying if they are telling the truth?
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