IS it worth applying to a start-up 'accelerator' or 'incubator' fund? What are your chances of getting into one? Is the 'mentoring' offered in such places worth it or is it just a semi-social office with coffee, coding and a bit of pool thrown in?
Thanks to an impressive bit of research from AIB and Amarach, we now have a good idea of the scale and success rate of accelerator-hosted start-ups in Ireland.
Image: The Entrepreneurship Forum's Sean O’Sullivan and Minister Richard Bruton at Dogpatch Labs, which Eamon Leonard rates as one of the best accelerators around. Picture: Steve Humphreys
To read the original article: Accelerator funding is no guarantee of quick success - Independent.ie
