Everywhere you turn there’s a new startup accelerator launching. Time will tell if that’s a good thing or not, but as I said in my last post, if you’re not doing it [an accelerator] to make money, you’re doing it wrong. The feedback was mixed, which doesn’t surprise me, since there are many accelerators operating at the moment that don’t have a primary mandate of returning dollars on investment. They’re designed for other primary goals: economic development (which really should be about making money), building a startup ecosystem (again, really driven by making money), job creation (bad idea), etc. But ignore that for a moment, and let’s assume you’re hell bent on starting an accelerator no matter what. Great! So what should it look like?
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Author: Ben Yoskovitz
