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Does your young business belong in an accelerator like The Fort in Washington, D.C.? Read below to find out. (J.D. Harrison)

Q: Coworking spaces, incubators, accelerators: How should entrepreneurs determine if one of them is right for their business?

Charlie Gilkey, principal of Productive Flourishing in Portland, Oregon:

Two questions can help you make this determination: 1) Do we have enough of a product developed or service history to start talking about it? and 2) how distractible are we?

While these environments can be great for helping you figure out how to communicate the problem you’re solving and what your business does, you’ll benefit more if you have enough of a product or history within your business to talk substantively about. What you might build rarely pays the bills, so it’s better to talk about what you have built.

To read the full, original article click on this link: Entrepreneurship advice: How to decide between coworking spaces, accelerators and incubators - On Small Business - The Washington Post