Thanks, ERA (Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator) for not accepting my startup. You aren’t best choice but we felt we needed something & had to move now or we’d keep waffling. Now we’re in the #1 accelerator; wouldn’t have happened if you didn’t dump us.
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This.
Accelerators are for sheep.
+1.
Most startups that go through accelerators quit a month after the program because they didn't instantaneously raise money.
You are so bitter and resentful.
<p>I see it more as this person celebrating their victory. Any founder that I know is motivated by the no's they get along the way. They're driven to prove people wrong. When you're able to do that successfully, I think it's appropriate to have your moment.</p>
You are probably right.
Amen!
Immature. Ask your new #1 accelerator what the appropriate way to gloat is (hint: my staying in touch with your progress). You can have your "victory" without coming off as a twerp. I'm assuming that you'll still want funding, and investors talk. Don't be talked about as a bitter and immature founder.
What is immature about being thankful that things turned out the best way? Yes, very thankful that you played your part and the team landed somewhere better. Who can be bitter for going higher?? How about <em>you</em> don't be bitter after the fact, for turning down what the #1 clearly thinks is a good find?
I'm sure you'll be in touch with the progress alright, through the press. ;)
The fact that you are not thankful, but rather rubbing on their face that you are better than them, because you were chosen by the #1 accelerator and not by their crappy one.
+1
Also, I'm the poster who said it was immature. I have no affiliation with any accelerator, so I'm not a "scorned lover" here. Imagine instead of a startup accelerator, you instead had an undrafted NFL prospect who did walk ons for the team he wanted to play for. They cut him. He subsequently makes a better team, and then boasts about how lucky he is to have been passed over by the original team before he's actually played a game. People would think that player was a douche. You don't need to "boast" about your success to someone who didn't recognize it and left you butthurt about it, you just need to actually demonstrate why they were wrong through actions. You clearly have a long way to go (see e.g., less than 100% success rate from #1 accelerator or accelerators in general)
Oh wow! Startups bicker like this? I laughed when I read the gloat because it was funny. It means nothing to get rejected by one and accepted by another unless you succeed. However, I am patient enough to know that whoever wrote that had some more learning to do and on this path we have chosen as Startups that person is definitely going to learn not to think they way the did about not being accepted by the ERA.