You wouldn't get to give a slick presentation even if you had one. We had a few bullet points on a piece of paper that we wanted to hit and I think we maybe hi

You wouldn't get to give a slick presentation even if you had one. We had a few bullet points on a piece of paper that we wanted to hit and I think we maybe hit one of five (and were accepted). We actually had a bunch of supporting materials that we never used. The starting point generally seems to be the demo and then your ability to talk about it. We did have various demo-y things on my laptop loaded up and ready to go, so when there was a question of, "Can you do..." I could just pull it up immediately. But he's right that you should pitch lots of people. That gets you used to talking about what you're doing. It's really easy when you've been too close to an idea for a while to assume what you're saying makes sense, when it often doesn't without the right context. I wrote some about our interview here: http://blog.directededge.com/2009/11/05/the-interview-with-y-combinator-thats-not/ http://blog.directededge.com/2009/11/05/the-interview-with-y...