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[quote=Anonymous]His business may eventually be supercecded. But what he had built, done, achieved, are invaluable foundations for a successful future.
Many entrepreneurs don't get a unicorn first try. What matters and what matters to investors and yes, admissions officers is the plan to use what you did to do the next thing.
Now, that requires maturity, resilience, the ability to rebound not mope and obsess over failing. Betamax didn't fail. Something better came along. 
Ever heard of Zip2?  Look it up. SDL? Facemash?
He can sell his company to on the ground people, exit, focus on school and his next thing. They can nurture it along until it is superceded and teach more folks than he can. 
He may turn out to be a better company builder than product builder. That's a good thing. Jobs knew what he wanted he didn't build the whole thing.

His company could fizzle tomorrow and it wont make any difference in his college admission prospects.  He did it. What they will look at is how he reacts to fizzle and how he sees the school fitting his plans.

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