July 27, 2026

Most accelerators make atartups worse. What do the good ones do?

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Every accelerator makes a version of the same offer: capital, mentorship, a network, three months of support, and materially better odds of survival. Evidence suggests that little of it actually works. In April, Youn Baek and Deepak Hegde of NYU Ster...