Startup Program Design: A Practical Guide for Creating Accelerators and Incubators at Any Organization

THE FUTURE OF STARTUP PROGRAMS

Throughout this book, we have discussed the many obstacles along the path of successful startup engagement and support programs. For some organizations, the future will continue to be business as usual—the same old constellation of internal turf wars, “not invented here” syndrome, misalignment of objectives, vanity metrics, irrelevant benchmarks, or unaware or lazy program designers copying and pasting a template blindly out of its context.

But we hope that the future will be different for our readers—a confident step toward a more contextual approach to startup program design based on the elements represented in ...