The Accelerator Design Guide
The Accelerator Design Guide
Guiding principles to frame your design decisions, so your accelerator moves the needle for your founders and investors.
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Decision Hacks
by Salim Virani
This is a toolkit for faster decision-making when you have nothing but imperfect options, incomplete information and far too much to do.
Decision Hacks is a reference guide to flip through when you're stuck. It's full of no-nonsense provocations - to slice through tough decisions, to dislodge mental obstacles, to get your momentum back.
Salim's been powering founder-to-founder learning since 2009. He's the founder of Leancamp and Founder Centric, and has powered startup education for 20+ accelerators and two top European business schools, UCL and Oxford.
Salim regularly connects thought-leaders and active founders around the world, trading notes on getting traction. He cuts through the theory and focuses on founders' real experiences.
Founders describe talking to him as "getting bludgeoned with gold bricks, so valuable it hurts." Decision Hacks is based on this ongoing, one-on-one experience with hundreds of founders.
"Sal is able to anticipate the challenges startups will encounter during the life cycle of their products, and has a bag full of ideas on how to solve these problems." - Eze Vidra, Head of Campus & Partner, Google Ventures
"Nobody will tell you the truth about how bad your startup is, except a benevolent sociopath. Sal is the only benevolent sociopath I know." - Rob Fitzpatrick, author of The Mom Test
"The way Salim teaches us to be better entrepreneurs and problem solvers can't be easily replicated. He opened a lot, if not all the team's minds -- and prevented blindly proceeding without asking the 'right and specific' questions." - Dayo Balogun, Founder, Solayo
"Salim comes up with out-of-the-box yet pragmatic solutions. He laid the foundation for our high growth. " - Kevin Haluk, CEO, SmartCast
"It's about time!" - Doan Winkel, Illinois State University
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About the Creator
Salim Virani View
I'm all about P2P methods to empower founders. I started Founder-Centric and Leancamp, and most recently Source Institute which develops state-of-the-art peer-education methods for the world's most challenging environments.I've trained startups all over the world, and helped bring some of the most useful thinking from the startups to founders in the developing world, creative industries and a huge variety of new startup communities. I like working at a grassroots level, but am also a European Commission evaluator and help with regional economic development. We started by delivering core training in over 20 accelerators (Seedcamp, Microsoft Ventures, Startupbootcamp) and 4 universities (Oxford, UCL, Imperial College, LBS), mainly getting teams to traction with a more practical, time-sensitive approach to workshops. We moved to specialising in program design, sharing lessons from our own accelerator projects and ultimately helping a more diverse range of clients design programmes that deliver their goals, with our experience. Our corporate clients (Orange, ASOS, Unilever) have engaged us in the design and delivery of multi-stream innovation programs. Typically, these program are centred around internal / external accelerators, new product / business line development and include the delivery of techniques, processes and culture change across the organisation.We've worked extensively across Europe and Africa, and in specialists verticals from cleantech to agriculture. If there are no maps where you're going, let's find the guides! Get in touch: salimvirani.com
Member Reviews
4 reviews
Reviewed on 2014-08-25 13:29:13
I like the editorial controls and way of giving feedback. Might use it to create guides with this for our own products.
Reviewed on 2014-08-25 10:32:56
It's super easy to sign up and navigate! The share and rate buttons can be more visible :)
Reviewed on 2014-08-25 03:22:07
perhaps you could include some more practical examples in each chapters where applicable.
Reviewed on 2014-08-24 20:39:01
Overall thought provoking, maybe consider how you can make everything more actionable.