Accelerator - How to Become Sustainable?

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Wekanser now more than ever, we need people with the right skills to support our communities. To help, linkton is offering free job posts for health care and essential service organizations that need to quickly fill critical roles. Linked in jobs screens candidates for the skills and experience you're looking for. When it's time to hire a new person, lincton will call your old one into action. And he got a candidate with a computer vision who has been over a year working on an artificial intelligence project. The winner was Kmetric at the mass challenge. They have created over a hundred and fifty seven thousand jobs around the world. So they are part of the solution for...

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?