Understanding Accelerator & Funding Portal Partnerships
TLDR
- Accelerators & Incubators will partner with FINRA approved Funding Portals (aka Crowdfunding Platforms)
- Because the real value is in getting Founders/Businesses "Business Ready"
- Founders will not benefit from this partnership and will opt to skip the Incubators and Accelerators going directly to crowdfunding platforms.
Hello Beautiful People! Recently you may have seen how YCombinator put 40 of their Startups onto the WeFunder platform. Which was an inevitable step in the evolution of crowdfunding. On YCombinator's side it was them opening the gates to a Trojan horse of epic size. How is that? I'll explain in the following bullets.
A natural partnership - Accelerators/Incubator and Funding Portals
In all truth I don't actually know what the difference is between an incubator and an accelerator. Yes, I could google it but that would be like googling "What is the Yellow Pages?" At any rate, in my head accelerators and incubators help Founder...more
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