Playbook / Lessons / Applications: accelerator, grant and lender
StartupsKeep your application current
A short guide for fellowship applicants says the prize goes to people who make progress on their work, not to people who only polish an application. It asks applicants to show past results alongside a sense of what is still ahead, and to refresh the application as the project moves.
“Applications are like fruit, fresh at first but they wither over time.”— 1517 Fund, How to Apply to the Thiel Fellowship, Apr 2019
Do this
Re-open your draft application this week and replace every milestone that is a month old with what has changed in your project since.