Comment by bredren

Be or have a co-founder with:

- an affiliation with an ivy league school

- a prior notable technology or business contribution, such as authoring a protocol (or more recently an open source project)

- some unusual circumstance such as family relationships that causes VC partners to care more about them than a random person

- be obviously independently wealthy already

- have been a founder or high level employee involved in a very successful vc-backed startup exit

One or a combination of these will ease getting an initial investor and closing a seed round.