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26 Questions To Ask Before You Join A Startup Accelerator
Choosing an accelerator program is a big moment for any startup founder. Not only are accelerators often the first significant outside investment you’ll receive, but you’re also dedicating months of time to a program that could change the...
What Does A Startup Accelerator Actually Do?
Defining a “startup accelerator” is no easy task. The term has become diluted with many different programs calling themselves “accelerators” despite widely varying offerings. As such, it’s often unclear what an accelerator is supposed to do,...
Direct Sales 101 for Early Stage B2B SaaS Founders
While the amount of focus you give to direct sales will eventually depend on your average customer size, every early stage B2B SaaS founder must do direct sales to start. Not only does direct sales help you build relationships with your prospects,...
Diversity, Inclusion & Equity at Acceleprise | Helping more founders build equity into their company DNA
One exercise we like to run with our portfolio founders while navigating the tactical work of building an inclusive company is to simply ask them to open up their Linkedin’s and look at their network. More often than not, their network is a...
How SaaS Founders Can Get More Responses to Cold Emails
When you're in the early stages of building your customer base for your SaaS business, chances are you’ll be sending a few cold emails. Personal networks only go so far, and it’s a good idea to land customers outside of your personal network to...
Why Founders Shouldn’t Fundraise From VCs in Canada Without Traction
If you’re looking to fundraise for a high-potential startup idea in Canada, headlines from Silicon Valley about a new idea getting $1 million in funding from angels can feel encouraging. Don’t fall for it. Unfortunately, Canada is markedly...
An End-to-End Guide To Setting Up Your Advisor Network
A great network of advisors can accelerate the trajectory of your startup. They not only open doors, they provide unique insights, lend credibility, speed up success and act as a sounding board to address business challenges quickly. But, the...
Forget the TAM and Focus on Customer Segments
Let me jump straight to it: Happy customers love to talk and will do your marketing for you. It’s as simple as that. You just need to find those key customers in the early days of building your business and let them do the work. How? If you...
We’re hiring a new Managing Director to lead our San Francisco Accelerator program
Every year, Acceleprise runs two programs for our B2B SaaS focused accelerator. Each program hosts ten startup companies at each of our three locations: San Francisco, New York City, and Toronto. Our program is tailored to early stage B2B SaaS...
How to Nail Your Seed Round Investor Meetings
You’ve launched your product, you have a basic website, and your early stage SaaS company is getting some traction. You’ve started the process for raising your Seed round, and you’re close to landing your first few investor meetings. Now it’s time...
To Lead Or Not To Lead: Understanding the SaaS fundraising strategy that’s right for you
As you gear up to raise your seed round, it’s important to consider which fundraising strategy is right for you. While you might have a preference before you start your investor conversations, it could very well change after you start your...
Diversity, Inclusion & Equity at Acceleprise | How We Source and Who We Fund
In a recent study of nearly 10,000 founders that received investments conducted by RateMyInvestor and DiversityVC, 9 percent identified as women, 17 percent as Asian American, 2.4 percent as Middle Eastern, 1.9 percent as LatinX, and 1 percent as...
Raising Your Seed Round: How to Secure Your First Investor Meetings
If you’re a first time founder, the fundraising process is likely the most daunting part of your journey. You know you need to do it, and you also know that you’re going to need some help. At Acceleprise, we dedicate almost half of our 4-month...
Building the Future of SaaS Remotely
How we’re pivoting our Accelerator in today’s new, remote world. Remote work is one of the most talked about subjects for companies around the globe right now. Everybody from the corporate behemoths to the founders in a garage are exploring (well.....
Finding and Honing Opportunities Amidst Uncertainty: Four Insights from Today’s Tech Leaders
Today, in virtual boardrooms across the country, we’re seeing leaders facing unprecedented uncertainty. They’re having tough and exciting conversations with investors, employees, and customers around what the future holds, and helping their teams...
Getting Through the Long-Game Without Layoffs: A Guide for Startups
Don’t make the long-term mistake of laying people off to handle short-term cash crunches. Even during a crisis, this is a critical error for startups if you haven’t exhausted all other options. While you gain a bit of runway in the short term, you...
Diversity, Inclusion & Equity at Acceleprise | Phase 1: Hire, develop, and retain talent
Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people each account for less than 8% of the Professionals category in U.S.high tech industry labor data (link). According to the Harvard Business Review, in an investigation of the state of venture capital between 1990...
9 Ways Extroverts Can Survive Self-Isolation
If you’re an extrovert who feeds on social interaction but suddenly finds yourself on a self-quarantine in the wake of COVID-19, it can feel, well, isolating. But more than simply being alone, you’ve also lost most of the activities that help you...
Customer Success in a Crisis: What to do when Retention is Everything
If you have a customer success team, get ready to go into overdrive - even as the economy re-opens post-COVID. Whenever a crisis looms, there is a lot riding on your ability to keep customers. While your team should also look for new revenue...
3 Emerging Technologies Helping Companies Comply with Evolving Privacy Legislation
This week we hosted our first Early Adopters Council briefing, focused on privacy and security and the emerging market trends and technologies in response to legislations such as CCPA, GDPR, New York Privacy Act, Canadian Privacy Act, and more. We...
Diversity, Inclusion & Equity at Acceleprise
Like so many others across the world, the murder of George Floyd has been a wake up call for myself and our fund. There are clearly systemic race issues in our country and beyond, and companies big and small need to do more to take sustained action...
The Innovator Series: Future of Work | Top 5 Insights from Eric Yuan, Founder & CEO of Zoom
The top 5 lessons Eric learned through COVID and during his nine years leading Zoom.
The Innovator Series: Future of Work | Panel Discussion
A thought-provoking conversation with today’s leaders exploring what work will look like tomorrow.
The Key to Conducting Successful Meetings According to Paul Swiencicki, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Swiftly
Recently, Paul Swiencicki visited Acceleprise’s accelerator in San Francisco to discuss “The Ins and Outs of Conducting Effective Meetings.” At first, that might seem simple — there are dozens of solid structures for running meetings, from getting...
Give Your Startup Some Credit
Raise your hand if you’ve been revenue-generating or profitable for 2–3 years? No one? That’s what we figured. Problem is, that’s the first question you’ll be asked when applying for a business credit card. A forward-thinking banker might try to...
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If you’ve got further questions or are realizing you have more challenges than you thought, we’d be happy to help. If you’re a B2B SaaS startup, check out our Accelerator. If you’re driving innovation in the corporate world, check out our Corporate Innovation work.