I've heard a few people say they were going to build a "Yelp for accelerators," but none of them actually followed through. So I'm glad someone finally did this!
Accelerat.io – Yelp for accelerators
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#12Setting October 2005. Krugman writes
"I used to live next door to a Russian émigré. One day he asked me to explain something that puzzled him about his new country. "This place seems very rich," he said, "but I never see anyone making anything. How does the country earn its money? The answer, these days, is that we make a living by selling each other houses. Since December 2000 employment in U.S. manufacturing has fallen 17 percent, but membership in the National Association of Realtors has risen 58 percent."
This services-dedicated-to-startup industry is smelling very much like a bubble.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/opinion/12krugman.html
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#13Great idea, hope that you are successful with this! If you're able to get good, verified reviews, the site will be tremendously valuable.
The other area I'd personally like, which might be hard to get reliable information for, is mentor accessibility and expertise. Both during and after the program.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, great feedback! Totally agree regarding average funding (it's biased and averages don't say much about distributions), I'm working on ways to get other metrics. Also love your suggestions for better ones. I could do 3. and 4. relatively easy, 1. and 2. are harder but definitely worth considering. Regarding verifying identities, I'm fully focused on getting real reviews. I've been gathering more than 100 reviews…
Median funding might be interesting (and less skewed by larger follow-ons).
True, but still wouldn't solve the problem: the best outcome and worst outcome look the same in that data set ($0 raised).
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#15Hi HN, Creator of Accelerat.io here. Just launched today and would love to get your feedback. I built this site because when I was applying to accelerators some months ago I wasn't really sure which ones to apply to as there were so many of them but so little transparency about how valuable they really are. We all know Y Combinator is good, but how about all those others out there? For the interested, the site's buil…
Really great site. The call to actions in-line is kind of distracting though, may be necessary to get enough volume but it's annoying until then. You could have the footer information be at the top and then remove the call to actions mixing with the data.
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#16I work in the particle accelerator control systems field and always get my hopes up when I see "accelerator" :)
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#17Re: Accelerat.io – Yelp for accelerators
#18Hi HN, Creator of Accelerat.io here. Just launched today and would love to get your feedback. I built this site because when I was applying to accelerators some months ago I wasn't really sure which ones to apply to as there were so many of them but so little transparency about how valuable they really are. We all know Y Combinator is good, but how about all those others out there? For the interested, the site's buil…
Really great site. The call to actions in-line is kind of distracting though, may be necessary to get enough volume but it's annoying until then. You could have the footer information be at the top and then remove the call to actions mixing with the data.
I agree it's can be a bit annoying, but as you mention it's a trade-off we intentionally chose for: we can only succeed when people add accelerators and reviews and this seemed a good way to grab some attention. Will be monitoring how succesful it actually is and if I could make it less intrusive or better targeted.
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#19Why "$ per %" instead of valuation?
I don't have a good idea of what's a good "$ per %" but I do have a good idea of what is a good/bad valuation, so I find myself having to do calculations. I sense that others are the same.
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#20Suggestion: Repeat the the column headings every 20 rows or so or make it sticky. By the end of the page I had to scroll back up to remind myself of some of the columns titles.