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The evidence on accelerators is better than most people think and narrower than most people want. The useful question is which program, for which outcome.
Most of what an investor network processes is a rejection, and almost none of its process design covers one. What a usable no contains, and what silence costs.
The committee is where a deal becomes a decision. Much of what determines the outcome is process design rather than the merits of the company.
Every tool in your stack now claims AI. The label tells you nothing. Here is how to tell a bolted-on feature from a workflow that was truly built around it.
Most angel networks measure activity: deals seen, meetings held, members signed up. Here is why that misses the point, and what to track instead.
AI made polished decks free, so presentation no longer tells you which startups are strong. For anyone screening at volume, that quietly breaks the funnel.
Investors review startups they were never going to back; founders pitch investors who were never going to bite. Why the mismatch happens, and what fixes it.
Europe has the capital and the startups. What it lacks is a connected investment infrastructure. Here is why cross-border investing in Europe still underperforms, and what the ecosystem needs to change.
Incubators, VCs, and angel networks across Europe still evaluate startups manually. Here is what that inefficiency costs the ecosystem, and what purpose-built infrastructure actually looks like.