Evaluating startup ideas.

Aug 7, 2024

How do I construct a hypothesis?

  • problem
  • solution
  • insight

The Problem's conditions ...

  • popular
  • growing
  • urgent
  • expensive
  • mandatory
  • frequent

About the founder

  • motivation, i have this problem i need to solve ...
  • ability, is your startup ...
  • trigger, what is the think that I need to solve it ...

Ideal problem's conditions

  • 1M+
  • 20%/year market increase
  • right now, we need to solve it
  • $B cost billons to solve
  • law changed - people have to solve a ton of problems
  • hourly - we need to use it multiple times a day
  • solution in search for a problem xxxxx

what is your unfair advantage?

why you? ... it has to be related to growth

  • founders - why you? are you a super expert ...?
  • market - 20% / year ... is it growing?
  • product - 10X better than your competition? oh shit this is so much better ... cheaper etc
  • acquisition - $0
  • monopoly - the more you grow, you get stronger?

reference: (Kevin Hale, 2019)