Playbook / Lessons / Applications: accelerator, grant and lender
StartupsHave a live product before you apply
An advisor lays out what an accelerator wants to see: a strong founding team, a product that is already live with traction that fits how long it has been out, and a short, natural founder video. He adds that missing even one of these makes the odds slim.
“You will need a live product for your application to get considered by an accelerator.”— Mike Suprovici, Read this Before Applying to an Accelerator, Aug 2018
Do this
Put a working version of your product in front of real users this week, so your application can point to something that is live and has numbers.