Startup Accelerators are Entrepreneur Boot Camps

"Business accelerators" is another term often used interchangeably with incubators. The key difference between them, according to purists, is that accelerators compress the timescale for startups by operating as a type of boot camp. The incubation period is very short and intense, usually intending to drive entrepreneurs from ideas to marketable products in a matter of months.

Most incubators and accelerators today provide one or more of the following:

By Martin Zwilling

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