The terms "incubator program" and "accelerator program" tend to be used interchangeably in some circles. Which can often be confusing for early-stage startup founders dipping their toes into the startup ecosystem for the first...
Lauren DeSeno
The Startup Founder Journey: Options for Zero to One
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates The startup founder journey is likely one of the most interesting in today's society. In the beginning, it is an extremely lonely one. The initial spark, the idea that eventually leads to the startup,...
5 Reasons Accelerators Need Pre-MVP Programs
The podcast How I Built This with Guy Raz is an excellent listen for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in the startup culture. For those crucial inventors and future founders, it offers insights into what to expect...
Data-Driven Best Practices for Startup Accelerators
The difference between a successful or unsuccessful startup can mean a multi-billion-dollar unicorn valuation or mountains of unpaid debts for the founding team. Anyone nurturing a startup should take great care to use data-based best practices to become a top startup...
10 Ways Accelerators Can Help Startups Be Investible
With intense competition among accelerators today as startup ecosystems emerge globally, it has become increasingly difficult for accelerators to find ways to lure top founders and talent to their programs. However, the best ones can shine within a sea of competition...
A Founder’s Guide to Startup Ecosystems
It takes a village to change the world. Startup creation is an industry built by disruptors who ask people to change their habits or how they do things, whether incrementally or in other significant ways. So really, the startup culture is built around changing the...
How to Create a Winning SaaS Go-To-Market Strategy
You’ve done the foundational work of finding a problem that exists in the world, validating that it is a problem to more than just you, and have identified your potential customer—what’s next? It’s that ever-elusive question for founders who have all the information...
Top Startups to Watch in 2023
2022 was an exciting year for the VC and startup world, from twitter-gate to record layoffs to projections of venture funding coming to a massive halt: It. Was. A. Year. But we made it! Now time for a bit of reflection. When you read the phrase “top startups to watch...
Does Silicon Valley Still Matter? Tech’s Continuing Evolution
Many aspiring tech entrepreneurs have dreams of moving to Silicon Valley to live the proverbial startup dream. They want to make it happen, just like the cast of the hit HBO show that became synonymous with tech companies and innovation. But between the extremely high...
2023 Tech Startup Trends: Top Industries
The 2020 COVID pandemic and subsequent global lockdowns changed the world and our society in many ways. Not only did they keep students home from school and parents home from work and result in small businesses across the country going out of business, but they also...