Accelerators that demand a deck or a financial model don't get it Spending time tinkering in a spreadsheet on a bunch of SWAGs (sophisticated wild ass guesses) when you're that early is waste of time All you should be thinking about is building and testing your ideas with customers Which means an accelerator that asks for a financial plan is expecting you to create one from scratch for them. They don't understand where your time is best spent And if they treat your application like a bank giving a mom n pop shop a loan, how helpful will they be helping you create a massive generational company? The most positive signal I got from my betaworks application form was No mandatory deck Wants to see a demo Showing what you've built and that people are using it is the only signal that matters this early I spent less than 15 minutes on my Betaworks application Because I'd already spent 100s of hours building and talking to customers If 15 minutes for $500k seems like a good ROI, applications are still open (link below) #startups #accelerator #build
The betaworks application I just filled out yesterday stood out from all the other VC lead collection I have seen. They were the only ones asking for a demo video. So I ended up creating a website for betaworks as part of the demo :) (took one Grok convo and one prompt to generate). There is so much variance across VC lead collecting its comical. Several use airtable, some have emails, some have impossible forms. Someone needs to standardize how VCs create leads - there is a SAAS funnel app waiting to built here.
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