Should You Join a Startup Accelerator?

There are hundreds of accelerators, but do they actually help?

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
8 min readJun 21, 2022

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Y-Combinator. Photo by Kevin Hale. CC 2.0 License from Wikipedia.

There are hundreds of accelerators claiming to help startups get off the ground. Should you join one?

If you’re looking for a simple yes or no answer, sorry, I don’t have a simple answer. Whether an accelerator will be beneficial for you depends on you and your startup…

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