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Startup Accelerators and Ecosystem Gatekeeping - Silicon Hills Lawyer

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TL;DR: Startup accelerators face a fundamental challenge to their value proposition: they don’t “own” their networks, and therefore struggle to continue extracting fees for accessing them. Classic disintermediation. Their responses to that challenge take a number of forms, and generally involve either dropping their price or attempts at controlling ecosystem players; the latter of which […]

posted in Accelerators , Advisors , Founders , Funding , Long Essays , Seed Rounds , Venture Capital on September 24, 2019 by ancerj TL;DR : Startup accelerators face a fundamental challenge to their value proposition: they don’t “own” their networks, and therefore struggle to continue extracting fees for accessing them. Classic disintermediation. Their responses to that challenge take a number of forms, and generally involve either dropping their price or attempts at controlling ecosystem players; the latter of which is misaligned with the interests of entrepreneurs and star

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