All the YC questions collected from random websites. Feel free to submit the PR if you still see duplicates or if you've been asked a question which isn't on the list yet.
- Acquisition funnel conversion rate
- Are you open to changing your idea?
- Customer acquisition cost
- Does this company have a clear and important mission?
- Growth rates of all of the above
- Have you considered [some twist on your idea]?
- Have you raised funding?
- How are you meeting customers?
- How are you understanding customer needs?
- How big an opportunity is there?
- How did you get them?
- How did your team meet?
- How do users know they need this?
- How do we know your team will stick together?
- How do you get users?
- How do you know customers need what you’re making?
- How do you know people want this?
- How does this become a billion-dollar company?
- How does your product work in more detail?
- How fast is the market growing?
- How is your product different?
- How is your solution better?
- How long can you go before funding?
- How many $B is the market?
- How many currently active users
- How many do you have now?
- How many more will you have in 3 months?
- How many of these users are there?
- How many people are in your target market?
- How many users are paying?
- How many users do you have?
- How many users do your competitors have?
- How many users have ever engaged
- How much are your competitors making?
- How much better is your solution?
- How much does customer acquisition cost?
- How much money could you make per year?
- How much time and money do users in your target market waste before switching to your product/service?
- How will customers and/or users find out about you?
- How will users find out about you?
- How will you get more?
- How will you make money?
- How will you overcome that resistance?
- If your startup succeeds, what additional areas might you be able to expand into?
- In what ways are you resourceful?
- No, what do they really use to solve that problem right now?
- Six months from now, what’s going to be your biggest problem?
- So what are you working on?
- Someone just showed us an idea like this right before you guys. I don’t like it. What else do you have?
- Tell us about a tough problem you solved?
- Tell us something surprising that has happened.
- Tell us something surprising you have done?
- Total costs, fixed and marginal?
- Total revenue?
- What are some trends in your target market, and related markets?
- What are the key things about your field that outsiders don’t understand?
- What are the top things your users want?
- What are you going to build
- What are you going to do next?
- What are you working on?
- What are your users doing now?
- What competition do you fear most?
- What do these users currently pay to have this problem solved?
- What do they like about this solution?
- What do they not like about this solution?
- What do they use to solve that problem right now?
- What do they wish that solution could do for them?
- What do you know about these users that no one else knows?
- What do you know about this space/product others don’t know?
- What do you understand about your users?
- What domain expertise do you have?
- What do you understand that others don’t?
- What else have you created together?
- What exactly makes you different from existing options?
- What has surprised you about user behavior?
- What have you learned so far from working on this idea?
- What have you learned so far from working on your product?
- What is something surprising you have done?
- What is the next step with the product evolution?
- What is your burn rate?
- What is your distribution strategy?
- How will you grow?
- What is your growth like?
- What is your user growth rate?
- What keeps you up at night?
- What makes new users reluctant to try you?
- What makes new users try you?
- What obstacles will you face and how will you overcome them?
- What other kinds of users could you go after once you get all these users using your software?
- What part of your project are you going to build first?
- What are you going to do next? What is the next step with the product evolution?
- What problem are you helping them with?
- What problems/hurdles are you anticipating? How will you overcome them?
- What resistance will users have to trying you and how will you overcome it?
- What systems have you hacked?
- What will you do if we don’t fund you?
- What, exactly, makes you different from existing options?
- What’s an impressive thing you have done?
- What’s new about what you make?
- What’s the biggest mistake you have made?
- What’s the conversion rate?
- What’s the funniest thing that has happened to you?
- What’s the rocket science here?
- What’s the worst thing that has happened?
- Where do new users come from?
- Where do new users come from? How do users find out about you?
- Where is the rocket science here?
- Which competition do you fear most?
- Who are your competitors? Who might become competitors?
- Who in your team does what?
- Who is going to be your first paying customer / who was your first paying customer?
- Who is your user?
- Who is “the boss”?
- Who might become competitors?
- Who needs what you’re making?
- Who would be your next hire?
- Who would use your product?
- Who would you hire or how would you add to your team?
- Why are these users good users to try to solve problems for?
- Why are you uniquely qualified to work on this?
- Why did you choose this idea?
- Why did you pick this idea to work on?
- Why did your team get together?
- Why do the reluctant users hold back?
- Why do you want to dedicate your life to working on this?
- Why is this a problem for them?
- Why isn’t someone already doing this?
- Why will you succeed over others? What do you understand that others don’t?
- Why would they switch to your solution?
- Will these founders develop into “forces of nature”?
- Will this company be easy to copy?
- Will this company build something lots of people really love?
- Will you reincorporate as a US company?
- Will your team stick at this?
- Would they be willing to pay more for something better?
- Would you relocate to Silicon Valley during YC?
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