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I had thought that question was clearly about competitive advantage through new and unique perspectives, as part of evaluating the business/technical idea. As s
by 10ren 17y ago
I had thought that question was clearly about competitive advantage through new and unique perspectives, as part of evaluating the business/technical idea. As such I'd expect the clones to include it. I'm twice mistaken.
I now see it's also about noticing non-obvious things, as a way to evaluate the founders; and that this better fits YC's philosophy of funding people not products.