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Thanks for answering, follow up question: What makes an application stand out, or conversely, what does an average application look like?

• pg 16y ago
  What makes an application stand out is founders who have a history of achieving things, and who seem to have thought deeply about the idea they're proposing. (We don't care that much about the nature of the achievements. They could be anything from having a high GPA at a difficult school to having built a cool piece of open source software.) The median application is from a couple guys who are programmers, but not particularly enthusiastic ones (e.g. haven't built anything interesting outside of school or work) and who have what we call a "made up" idea, meaning one that sounds plausible but which no specific person they know truly needs.