An Overview of Startup Accelerators in the UK

This article is an overview of a series of articles summarizing the top startup accelerators in the UK for bootstrapped and solo founders, comparing them to 1Mby1M.

Guest Author Ryan Sung | | Reviewed by Sramana Mitra

Over the past ten posts in The Accelerator Conundrum series, I have explored the landscape of startup accelerators for UK-based founders, analyzing programs across multiple dimensions—from virtual access and equity terms to mentoring, investor introductions, and validation-first approaches. The research aimed to identify which accelerators truly support founders in building sustainable, fundable, and scalable businesses, rather than those that focus on short-term visibility or quick Demo Day hype.

Startup Accelerators in Central Asia: A Full Overview

This article is an overview of a series of articles summarizing the top Startup Accelerators in Central Asia, comparing 1Mby1M across ten key dimensions—from validation to bootstrapping, solo founders to long-term mentoring. 

Guest Author Altynai Myrzabekova | Reviewed by Sramana Mitra

I have recently published a series of  posts where I explored the most relevant accelerator options for founders in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. This research applied lessons from The Accelerator Conundrum series to the realities of the region, examining what actually works for long-term success. Here are all the ten articles in the series, each with a short description and direct link:

Adi Ruppin

Serial entrepreneur, founder & CEO at Ananda Networks, re-imagining networking and security.

One Form of Regenerative Energy: The Kaizen Feedback

By Guest Author Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

We all know about the natural tendency of systems toward their degradation. It’s called entropy. In her new book, Everybody Wants to Love Their Job: Rebuilding Trust and Culture, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis discusses the various ways organizations can fight that entropy, and instead, generate the negative entropy that Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger ended up naming “negentropy.” Thwarting entropy ultimately means breeding creative energy within the company non-stop by nurturing an environment that doesn’t inhibit imagination from the get-go and paying attention to all the sources of regenerative energy. What Delbourg-Delphis calls “kaizen feedback” is one of them. >>>

Innovation and disruption: Forces Turned on and off by human beings

By Guest Author Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

In her new book, Everybody Wants to Love Their Job: Rebuilding Trust and Culture, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis reflects on the demise and death of once-giants.

Companies either fail or succeed. It’s just a simple truth. There were certainly plenty of causes for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, but the primary one, according to the famous 18^th century historian Edward Gibbon, was the gradual disappearance of its citizens’ civic virtues. Similarly, the main causes of companies’ annihilation could very well be human. Employees have stopped being citizens of their company and fighting for it. They behave. They aren’t causing problems or generating liabilities. They’ve just given up on the idea that their voice matters. >>>

Hiring for Innovation? Where do people “who have done it before” best fit in?

By Guest Author Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

In her new book, Everybody Wants to Love Their Job: Rebuilding Trust and Culture, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis draws from her extensive experience as a serial CEO, executive consultant, and board member to assesses the cons and pros of hiring people who “have done it before.”

Clichés have an advantage: they are self-explanatory. But the main drawback of these ready-made phrases is that nobody questions their meaning any longer. >>>

Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

Marylene Delbourg-Delphis is a serial technology CEO, executive consultant and board member who has focused on avant-garde products throughout her career. >>>

Dan Schawbel