We like to setup a peer-support culture, focused on learning progress, so the teams hold themselves accountable.

We remain closely involved, both casually and through group Braintrust meetings and 1-on-1 check-ins, which are designed to spot wheel-spinning and opportunities for the accelerator to shorten lead-times. (We've found this is at the heart of acceleration.)

These flag up problems that are easily resolved via intros, resource, or help from you. In some cases, yoou can help un-block your teams by pulling in a relevent workshop or expert.

How can you get teams to support themselves?

When a team spends more than a week stuck on the same problem, that's a warning sign. If they spend two weeks, it's critical. Three weeks, and the vultures are circling - it's unlikely they'll achieve the acceleration goal.

As much as we'd like to think stand-ups, weekly meetings or playing table football will help us spot these problems, it's the founders peers who naturally have this insight. No matter how cool you are, you'll always be bad cop to their good cop.

Installing a culture and structure of peer-support that focuses on avoiding wheel-spinning can help. How can you do that? (If you'd like, check out Braintrust, a peer-support format we've developed over the last 3 years.)