One of YC's innovations is to use the founders themselves to do technical due diligence on their own idea.
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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.
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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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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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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Or for that matter
@uber or any "first" in its segment. Sending ideas to "experts" can be counter-intuitive at times.
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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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