" The goal is to make something people want, not to impress YC." As they say "agree in part deny in part". One of the advantages perhaps is not so much impres

" The goal is to make something people want, not to impress YC." As they say "agree in part deny in part". One of the advantages perhaps is not so much impressing YC. It's not tripping any alarms that say "this team is clueless because look what they did or said ha ha ha". Besides you expect anyone applying for something important to put in effort. And part of that effort is digging up information (this is part of sales actually) on who you are selling to and what in general appeals to them. And being generally aware and up to speed on "the game". Any individual error probably doesn't mean much. But a group of them do mean something. I remember the time in the early 90's when I worked for a company out in SV. It sold a Mac peripheral product. The VP of sales (who I worked for) needed to know what things I needed to do demos of the product. One of the things that I mentioned was "a syquest drive". He said "what's a syquest drive"? I thought "how can you read publications about the Mac and not run into ads for syquest drives and know what they are just by osmosis". At that point I knew who I was dealing with. Years later (ntim of course) he isn't working "in the industry".