✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

How to get startup ideas : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator

ycombinator.com · 12 words · saved by 1 readers

YC Partner Jared Friedman shares advice on how to get startup ideas. This video was recorded for the future founder track in Startup School 2020. Hi, everyone. My name is Jared. I'm a partner at YC. I'm going to talk about how to get startup ideas. This talk is for anyone who doesn't yet have an idea for a startup, and wants to find one. It's also relevant if you have an idea, but aren't sure it's the one you want to stick with. Now, this is a tricky topic, because startup ideas are subtle. No one, not even YC, knows for sure which ideas will succeed. But at YC, we have seen thousands of startups try thousands of ideas, and we have learned that there are some powerful statistical trends. Certain kinds of ideas, and certain ways of generating ideas are much more likely to succeed than others. And so, my goal here is to point you in directions with a higher likelihood of success. Here's how it's going to work. First, I'm going to discuss the most common mistakes founders make when coming

How to get startup ideas : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator

Explore this link on the map →

related reading