How Investors Think About Ideas вђ Kevin Hale вђ Fire Your Boss Kevin hale on how investors think about ideas. startup school is yc's free online program for founders. sign up to access the full curriculum and over $100k. In the first week of startup school at y combinator, kevin hale, founder of wufoo, explains how to evaluate startup ideas. i summarized his speech and you can read my notes about startup ideas evaluation here:.
Impressing Investors What You Want Investors To Think Pitch Deck Fire 00:43 – kevin hale on how to evaluate startup ideas. 2:04 – how can i predict if an investor will like my idea? 2:50 – a startup idea is a hypothesis. 5:44 – problem. 6:59 – solution. 8:16 – insight. 8:57 – unfair advantages. 13:45 – two beliefs about startups. 15:19 – eric migicovsky on how to talk to users. Startups should begin by identifying a problem rather than focusing on a solution. investors assess the potential market size and scalability of the company. four types of beliefs: founders, market, product, and acquisition strategy, are crucial for investors to believe in. Kevin hale, a partner at y combinator, outlines a process on how to evaluate startup ideas. he emphasizes that y combinator's definition of a startup is a company designed to grow quickly, and that evidence should be provided to show an investor the company can do this. he identifies six characteristics of a good problem: popularity, growth. One of them has to be remembering what you do. and so, the goal of you being on stage is not to say all the things that's great about your company, it is to get people to want to have a conversation with you, to say, like, "i can't ignore having a conversation with that person." that's what a great pitch does.
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