https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/13at8sy/the_secret_sauce_on_how_to_get_funded/

Over the course of this year, we’ve seen a lot of founders get funded in our community.

The secret sauce? The ones who got funded had two things in common.

Traction (50k ARR+)

Warm VC network (a16z, Pear, Tim Draper, etc.)