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Evaluating Startup Ideas Pt. 2 by Kevin Hale

Startup School by Y Combinator

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What Is Complexity?

A great pitch is one where you can tell it to your maam. And she's proud of you, right? She's not going to shake her head. We talk in normal conversational speak. We don't talk like an mba or cios all the time. So it's best to talk conversationally. Again, avoid jargon, words that are only understood or used by your industry. No preamble. Let's go straight to what you want to talk about. To make things reproducible, i need to know nouns. I need to have objects that i'm going to imagine in my head. The last one, this ons a big one, is being

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