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Regarding applying without an idea: https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#noidea https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#noidea "We tried this once with YC,
by zura 11y ago
Regarding applying without an idea:
https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#noidea https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#noidea
"We tried this once with YC, and it didn't work well."
Any post-mortems about this?
- danieltillett 11y agoGiven this it is strange the conventional wisdom is ideas are cheap. Why let evidence get in the way of ideology.
- rl3 11y agoStrongly believing in an idea forms the backbone of conviction. Without conviction, the founder(s) will arguably be less motivated and thus less effective.
- danieltillett 11y agoOr the more likely possibility that if you could not come up with a good idea in the years before entering YC you are unlikely to come up with one in a couple of months during YC. My limited observation is there is little correlation between the quality of the idea and how hard a startup team works.
- garry 11y agoIdeas remain a multiplier on execution. This illustrates a different phenomenon we encountered: Founders with no ideas at all often fail to come up with a compelling one when prompted.
- danieltillett 11y agoThis means that ideas must be more than a multiplier - they must be a requirement of success just like execution. It does illustrate that good ideas really are not cheap.