My notes from Y Combinator Startup School lessons

What I learned from Wufoo Co-Founder, Kevin Hale

notes from Kevin Hale “How to Evaluate Startup Ideas”

Last year experience at startup school showed Y Combinator that last year curriculum was too advanced. Most of the people participating in last year startup school have no idea or have a lot of ideas and they don’t know which one to pursue.
One of the reasons many people can only work part-time on their startups is that they don’t know what do they need to be convinced to quit their jobs. Also, this is a critical skill for startups to know when to pivot. Evaluating your startup ideas tells you when to pivot, and what to pivot for that worth doing. Also if you are launched evaluating your ideas, tells you why you are not growing and how to improve.

It is very useful to evaluate your startup idea as an investor evaluates it. Many founder wondering if the investors gonna like their startups or not. Kevin Hale explains how you can predict if investor like your idea or not.

How can I predict if an investor will like my idea?

In YC startup definition is basically “Growth”. A startup at YC is a company that is designed to grow very quickly…