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Setting the Startup Accelerator Pedal

For Entrepreneurs

Startups frequently make one of two mistakes: spending too much money, or spending too little money. A key job of the CEO is knowing where to set the startup accelerator pedal.

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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Many entrepreneurs are reliant on outside funding, whether angel investors, venture capitalists or strategic investors , to keep the venture going. The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy.

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Paris-based accelerator The Family sues co-founder Oussama Ammar

TechCrunch

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. Entrepreneurs know this well. They teamed up to build a different kind of startup accelerator without any batch or demo day.

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Why You Don’t Want to Miss the MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Some MyEO DX members are angel investors and serial entrepreneurs with deep knowledge about the process and strategy behind buying and selling companies. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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Y Combinator is back to bet on the Bay Area

TechCrunch

Y Combinator, the startup accelerator that has launched the likes of Instacart, Stripe and Airbnb, has broadened its investing lens in recent years, backing companies all over Africa and India, and beyond. In many ways, it’s a new era – but in some, it’s a return to the accelerator’s former geographic roots.

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Snap debuts its fifth cohort of Yellow accelerator startups

TechCrunch

The eight companies that are part of the latest batch of startups will take up a 13-week residency in one of Snap’s buildings in Santa Monica, California. Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat’s new startup accelerator.

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6 Things Alexis Ohanian Wishes Someone Had Told Him Before He Started Reddit

Entrepreneurs' Organization

’s annual GrowCo conference on Wednesday, the entrepreneur, investor, and Internet advocate divulged the most valuable lessons he’s learned since he launched the hugely popular website in 2005. On Wednesday, in remarks before 700 entrepreneurs attending Inc.’s In remarks at Inc.’s Read them, he advised.