About a eighty to ninety per cent of our funding comes from corporate funders. The rest come from governments, individual high network individuals or fosions. So over the ten years, we have accelerated a two thousand four hundred and fifty eight start ups. Those start ups have received over six point two billion dollars in funding. They have earned over three billion dollars in revenue, and they have created over a hundred and fifty seven thousand jobs....
0:42 Jason intros MassChallenge CEO Siobhan Dullea
3:09 What is MassChallenge & how is it different from a typical accelerator?
5:48 How many startups do they accept across their different programs?
11:33 How does their prize money situation work? How are the winners selected?
19:05 How is MassChallenge sustainable as a non-profit
22:55 How is MassChallenge funded & how do they track portfolio success, what government & corporate sponsors looking for out of MC?
29:22 MC's top accelerator companies
32:24 What makes for a great application?
39:00 Why are East Coast investors obsessed with intellectual property? Why are they more conservative?
44:10 Thoughts on virtual accelerators?
47:20 Red flags when accepting companies?
50:08 What will change post-COVID-19?