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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

Put them all together in a shared workspace with some light programming that encourages random interaction and candid discussion and see what happens. Done right, the intensity of these relationships carries far beyond the duration of the program.

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Hair On A Deal

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

The team will be great and reference well. They have popularized a new form of work space, a new business model for it, and have they have built a global brand around shared workspaces. In a perfect world, everything about a potential investment will be confidence inducing. The market will be huge. But the world is not perfect.