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Houston Health Venture{{:HHV's NextHIT accelerator program is a Houston-based, for-profit institution founded in 2014. It advertises a wide array of services, including funding, access to experts, educational programs, mentorship, and office space at the University of Houston. Of the NextHIT program's five directors, two have direct entrepreneurship experience as either an established entrepreneur or serial venture capitalist, and one director has peripheral experience as a repeat investor or member of an advisory board. Of the seven startups which have enrolled in the NextHIT program,}}
Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief) (view source)
Revision as of 18:05, 31 October 2016
, 18:05, 31 October 2016→HHV's NextHIT
An accelerator is a “fixed-term, cohort-based program including mentorship and educational components, that culminates in a public pitch event, often referred to as ‘demo-day’” (Cohen and Hochberg, 2014). The mission of an accelerator, often a non-profit entity, is to provide early stage start-ups with resources, mentorship, and networking needed to gain access to venture capital funding. On average, cohorts stay with an accelerator for 3 months cumulating with a pitch to several venture capital investors. (Fehder and Hochberg, 2014)
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