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Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color

TechCrunch

Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community. Resource’s “ESO Accelerator” will train startup ecosystem leaders on how to build a more financially sustainable organization, as well as help connect them to potential funders.

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Win Up To $10,000 in Ben Franklin’s No-Cost Startup Boot Camp!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Business mentoring from Ben Franklin’s Transformation Business Services Network and Penn State’s Small Business Development Center staff will also be provided at no cost. You’ll come away from this experience with a working business model, networking contacts, and experience pitching to potential funders.

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Small Business Resources Essential for Starting a Business

American Entrepreneurship

Business Incubators and Accelerators : Incubators offer entrepreneurs and startups workspaces that are typically below market rates. Accelerators are programs run by a range of organizations and funders to assist the best startup applicants they choose. Full list of U.S. Accelerators found h ere.

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Atomic-backed Jumpcut uses data to advance diversity in film

TechCrunch

Since Hopkins isn’t publicly known as a writer, she assumed that Jumpcut found her through a television network she had pitched a script to, but that wasn’t the case. So far, Jumpcut has hosted three incubator programs. “We said, ‘no, our algorithms found you.'”

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

One failure mode for less effective accelerators, and even more so for the related “studio” or “incubator” model, is to pretend that people who otherwise would not be founders can be coached into the role with sufficient time and scaffolding. This has not been our experience.

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Circularity Tales: Accelerate2030 piloting the transition

Impact Hub

How can we better support acceleration and incubation efforts to push for the transition from the linear to the circular economy? Circularity is part of our broader Environmental Strategy – discover how Impact Hub Global Network is addressing our time’s most pressing issues here.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

On top of that, they tend to be the locus of innovation networks. It's no accident that the people who give out money have the largest networks of people floating around them. Ideas get poorly vetted because the funders aren't current on tech trends. They have a huge information advantage that startups can tap.