{"id":44187,"date":"2017-08-01T10:18:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T08:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newserver.fyb.de\/produkt\/10-years-of-seed-accelerators-insights-for-techfounders\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T08:18:03","slug":"10-year-seed-accelerators-knowledge-for-techfounders","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fyb.de\/en\/produkt\/10-year-seed-accelerators-knowledge-for-techfounders\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Years of Seed Accelerators \u2014 Insights for TechFounders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Matthias Ande\u00adrer<\/strong> \u2014 Direc\u00adtor Venture Deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment at Tech\u00adFoun\u00adders, Tech Startup Accle\u00adra\u00adtor Program, Garching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many corpo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons afford an acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor these days. In this way, they want to iden\u00adtify digi\u00adtal busi\u00adness models, tech\u00adni\u00adcal deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adments and inno\u00adva\u00adtions earlier. The acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor land\u00adscape has deve\u00adlo\u00adped with enorm\u00adous expo\u00adnen\u00adtial growth from the begin\u00adning of 2005 to the present day, which has alre\u00adady led some stake\u00adhol\u00adders to speak of a bubble. The deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment from broad-based, purely finan\u00adci\u00adally orien\u00adted acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor programs in the early days to group-finan\u00adced programs with a clear verti\u00adcal\u00adiza\u00adtion will be briefly exami\u00adned in this article. Attemp\u00adting to incor\u00adpo\u00adrate insights from 10 years of Acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor history led to the design of the Tech\u00adFoun\u00adders program. The core elements of this program will be explai\u00adned in this article.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How it all began \u2014 the Y\u2011Combinator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor of its kind, <em>Y\u2011Combinator<\/em> was foun\u00added in 2005 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Black\u00adwell, and Jessica Living\u00adston. The busi\u00adness model of this venture was comple\u00adtely unknown at the time, and so Paul Graham\u2019s team initi\u00adally deci\u00added to accept eight start\u00adups in a \u201cSummer Foun\u00adders Program\u201d. The program was successful, and by 2006, 25 acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtors could be iden\u00adti\u00adfied in a growth curve that has been unbro\u00adken ever&nbsp;since.<\/p>\n<p>First, more programs like Tech\u00adStars emer\u00adged in the U.S., and even\u00adtually the trend gained trac\u00adtion in Europe and Asia, leading to programs like <em>Star\u00adtup\u00adboot\u00adcamp<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2015, the provi\u00adder Seed DB lists 234 acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor programs world\u00adwide \u2014 although the number of acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor-like funding programs is likely to be much higher. Accor\u00adding to unof\u00adfi\u00adcial expert infor\u00adma\u00adtion, there are around 1,600 incu\u00adba\u00adtor\/\u00adac\u00adce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor-like programs in China alone, for exam\u00adple. Accor\u00adding to offi\u00adcial statis\u00adtics, North America leads the way as the cradle of the concept with 139 acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor programs, follo\u00adwed by Europe with 57 programs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s not just the money that counts \u2014 how corpo\u00adra\u00adtes and govern\u00adments expan\u00added the acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor&nbsp;idea<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2452,2552,2597],"product_tag":[1955,2264,2271,2276],"class_list":{"0":"post-44187","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ebook-en","7":"product_cat-fyb-2016-en","8":"product_cat-matthias-anderer-en","9":"product_tag-other","10":"product_tag-matthias-en","11":"product_tag-accelerator-en","12":"product_tag-accelerator-program","13":"pa_sprache-english-3","14":"pa_sprache-german","16":"first","17":"outofstock","18":"taxable","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>10 Years of Seed Accelerators - Insights for TechFounders - FYB Financial Yearbook<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fyb.de\/en\/produkt\/10-year-seed-accelerators-knowledge-for-techfounders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 Years of Seed Accelerators - Insights for TechFounders - FYB Financial Yearbook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many corporations afford an accelerator these days. 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