Perhaps it is true that people don't take invites on facebook seriously as they can see the list of people. If there are too many people invited, they might not feel obligated to respond. What if you had a dedicated invite service and you could not observe the number of people coming (say to a dinner or a party etc). Would you feel more obliged to respond?
We spent a few weeks before the deadline editing and re-editing our application. We only submitted it a day before it was due.
Perhaps there were many groups like us who had thought about applying a while and spent time editing their application before sending in the last few days.
I didn't just mean that people submit the application on the last day. That is certainly common. But from talking to founders I've learned that a lot only decide to apply on the last day.
When you already run a startup like we do, you do not have much time to submit, you code, so the deadline sneaks up on you. I would say you can not read much into the submission date.
I don't think you understand his point. He's not just looking at the submission time of the application. He talks to the applicants, and some of them say they didn't decide to apply until the last day. This is different from deciding to apply weeks before the deadline, but not doing it until the last day.
We did something similar. We've been coding furiously throughout the past few weeks, to flesh out in a demo what we thought would be the key differiantiators of our idea. Then we reserved a few days before the deadline to work and re-work the application. We submitted it a day before it was due as well.
Pressing that button was in itself quite satisfying.
