People (some people) deal very poorly with far future deadlines, where "far" ranges from "after this conversation is over" to "months from now." Middle class Americans are typically trained to be a little better at this than humans are born to, but at the end of the day you're running Well-Educated Professional 2011 on hardware designed to be minimally capable of executing SimianOS.
There's also a spectrum of, shall we say, commitment to one's application which is orthogonal to quality of the application. If I were to ever apply, that would be a Certified Big Deal for me personally, but for someone running a successful business, speaking to investors, and in the middle of hiring engineer #3, this might be just one more thing on the ToDo list. That doesn't necessarily make my business a better fit for YC than her's.
Actually, I'd bet that if there's one biggest thing that stands between me and pg giving me a big check it's my ability to set goals and meet them in a timely fashion.
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People (some people) deal very poorly with far future deadlines, where "far" ranges from "after this conversation is over" to "months from now." Middle class Americans are typically trained to be a little better at this than humans are born to, but at the end of the day you're running Well-Educated Professional 2011 on hardware designed to be minimally capable of executing SimianOS.
There's also a spectrum of, shall we say, commitment to one's application which is orthogonal to quality of the application. If I were to ever apply, that would be a Certified Big Deal for me personally, but for someone running a successful business, speaking to investors, and in the middle of hiring engineer #3, this might be just one more thing on the ToDo list. That doesn't necessarily make my business a better fit for YC than her's.
Actually, I'd bet that if there's one biggest thing that stands between me and pg giving me a big check it's my ability to set goals and meet them in a timely fashion.