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How to Evaluate Startup Ideas Pt. 1 by Kevin Hale

Startup School by Y Combinator

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How Do You Know if You Have an Unfair Advantage?

You have to have an unfair advantage that explains why you're going to grow quickly. There's five different types, and companies do not have all of them. And we'll go through two examples a but, ah, you want at least one. It's nice if you can have a two or three, but for most of you it's probably just one. If your market is growing 20 % a year, like by default, if you just build the solution in this space, you should just automatically grow.

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