Preparing for Funding Ep6: Accelerators/Incubators – Recut

Office Hours is our podcast covering general issues related to small businesses and startups. Preparing For Funding is a series of Office Hours episodes hosted by VW Partners Kevin Vela and Rad Wood about getting your company’s legal house in order before taking on funding. We are recutting this series to reflect updates in law and venture trends in the last 5 years to better help you navigate through preparing for funding.

In this episode, we break down the differences between accelerators and incubators and discuss how to determine if an accelerator is a good fit for your company.

• :36 – Accelerators v. Incubators
• 4:34 – The Best Accelerators 
• 7:35 – Y Combinator Terms
• 10:37 – How to Make Sure an Accelerator is a Good Fit for Your Company
• 11:01 – Off-Market Terms
• 16:18 – Techstars Terms
• 19:53 – Treating Accelerators as a Venture Fund

• The Critical Role that Accelerators Play in Venture Financing
• The Hidden Cost Of Accelerators
• Top 37 Accelerators and Incubators in Texas
• VDR Ch. 4, Part 1: Economic Terms of the Term Sheet

• Capital Factory
• DivInc
• RevTech Ventures
• SKU
• Sputnik 
• Techstars
• Y Combinator