Startup Validation framework

YC Combinator’s Approach for Startup Validation

Framework?

• Do you have founder/market fit?
• How acute is the problem?
• Do you have competition?
• Do you want this personally?
• Did this only become necessary or possible?
• Are there proxies? (Indirect competitors)
• Is this an idea you want to work for years?
• Is this a scalable business?
• Is this a good idea space?

Reciepe

• Start with what your team is really good at?
• Thinks of things that you wished existed
• Look for things in the world that have changed recently
• Look for companies which have become successfully and become a variant of it
• Talk to people and ask them what problems they have?
• Look for