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Re:We Got Accepted into Techstars and Turned Them Down by riffraff on Friday October 03, 2014 @07:07AM (#8404995)
that is true of most of these programs.

I guess it's to avoid having to vet each request individually.

Accepting them without any check means I'd create a new "startup" for each random page I put on the internet just to get free stuff, but having to verify each request may become a pain point quickly. Being part of an accelerator means that the work has been done by someone else.

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Re:We Got Accepted into Techstars and Turned Them Down by rgbrenner on Friday October 03, 2014 @03:42PM (#8407258)
That's true.. but Amazon and BizSpark do not have the accelerator requirement* . Considering that those are Google Cloud's direct competitors, it's a fair question why they have that requirement when their competitors don't.

* (both programs give addtl resources if you're in an accelerator though - amazon portfolio package and bizspark plus respectively)

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