Why All Incubators Should Follow 500 Startups and Use AngelList as a Gateway

That was interesting. In a post that took less than 5 minutes to read I learned the author has undergraduateresearch experience, was admitted to an MD/PhD programme and is an inveterate namedropper. There was alsp something about some startup he's involved in, how tons of people wanted in and he (and possibly existent but never mentioned cofounders) have only hired engineers. That's at least three overt uses of social proof; too overt, like an MBA who does not inderstand that his attitude will cause many, many nerds to think he's probably not bearable company.

There was also something about some incubator's application process in there somewhere.

"The smaller the program the more attention you get."

There's a math mistake here. The amount of attention you get depends not on the number of startups but on the ratio of full-time advisors to startups.

OP: consider re-writing to have less of a "this is why my startup is awesome and well-connected" and more of a "this is what Angel-list is actually going to be important".

Here's a hint: it's about data.

(Also, your landing page made me want really sad. Confidence is great, but being a douche is, well, being a douche)

I realize this was a negative post and HN is too full of those these days, but this was needed

I think it says a lot here that I read that whole thing and still have no idea what you do or why you're touting it about like this.

FYI, selekt.com is going to a parked domain page for Domains Made Easy. The logo in the top left of the page goes to "blog." so I stripped that prefix off to check out the main page, and was very surprised.

Just because 500 Startups is using AngelList doesn't mean that you won't need to use social capital to get their attention.