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Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere

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Last year, Aziz Gilani, a director at Houston venture capital firm DFJ Mercury , ran a study of 29 North American accelerators for the Kauffman Fellows Program. He found that 45% of them produced not a single graduate who went on to raise venture funding. And those programs have done very well.”.

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