Yep! But what attracted us to this change was that the prep time those good attorneys required has been highly variable. If you have a lot of old media coverage, it could be a 1 month prep time + 2 weeks DC adjudication. If not, it could be an 8 month prep time + 2 weeks DC adjudication.

The goal of expanding the criteria definitions to more broadly mesh up with the lifecycle of successful startups and linking in the investor signal parameter into the review process will be to change that curve to be much more bunched up against the 1 month bins.

And yes, part of our argument was that startup founders /are/ doing all of these things already. Just it takes time that kills startups, and startups are also doing a lot of extraneous work (e.g. chasing NYT coverage when more TC or re/code coverage is what's needed to get another wave of early adopters or investor interest for that next round's buzz) to qualify for the visa when they should instead be focusing on product and traction.