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730th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording

Posted on Friday, Jun 12th

In case you missed it, you can listen to the roundtable recording here:

Roundtable Recap: June 11 – Sustainability First, Blitzscaling Second

Posted on Friday, Jun 12th

If you are looking for an accelerator to work with that protects you from either going out of business rapidly, or becoming a zombie, please read my new paper, How to Evaluate a Technology Startup Accelerator. Please remember, most equity charging accelerators operate with the Blitzscaling out of the gate philosophy pioneered by Y Combinator.

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How Blitzscaling Can Create Zombie Startups

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 14th

Nine out of ten startups that sign up for Blitzscaling fail. They become zombie startups. They cannot raise new rounds of financing. They cannot find an Exit either. They just sit there, feeling like failures. Even if they have built $10M in profitable revenue.