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StartupsWrite shorter answers with proof in them
A person who reads accelerator applications explains why long, vague answers lose the reader after the first few hundred forms. The post asks for hard data instead of hand-waving, and warns against repeating the same facts in several answers.
“We respect enthusiasm but we treasure brevity.”— Andrew Ackerman, How Not To Apply To An Accelerator, Oct 2016
Do this
Cut every answer in your draft accelerator application down to the shortest version that still carries one number or fact this week, before you submit anything.