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Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of this week in startups. I'm super excited to share with you the top three vote-getters at the launch Accelerators 18th cohort. We run an accelerator and we used to do that in San Francisco and have everybody come out for 12 weeks but during the pandemic well that ended and we went

completely virtual the accelerator is just like any other top accelerator you've

heard of like Tech Stars or Y Combinator. We put in a

100k. We work with a company over four months. It's now a 16-week program

essentially and we try to help them raise money we introduce them to every investor we can

imagine and then when the invest each week they present to investors so it's like a

demo day each week with 10 to 20 investors present by the end they've done

this 16 times so they've presented to likely 500 investors if you can't raise

money after you've pitched 500 investors, that should tell you something about the business.

Either the business doesn't have product market fit or doesn't have that uptick that would lead investors to want to make a bet.

Maybe the investors don't like the space.

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