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by nostrademons 3961 days ago
tl;dl: Timing.

The rank ordering was Timing, Team, Idea, Business Model, and Funding.

Also, keep in mind that the scores were assigned by Bill Gross, qualitatively, and so I wouldn't necessarily consider this a very scientific survey. It does roughly match findings by a16z and YC, though.