I believe this project will be used to determine which accelerators are the most effective at churning out successful startups, as well as what characteristics are exhibited by these accelerators. First, we need to gather as much data as we can about as many accelerators as we can in order to look at what the successful ones are doing differently from the unsuccessful ones. Next, we need to create a "crawling" program which will gather information about accelerators across the world by accessing their websites and extracting information. I believe that our overall goal with this research project is to gain insight into the methods of successful accelerators, as well as to find out what exactly differentiates very successful accelerators from dead accelerators.
Helpful Links:http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2016/03/11/the-best-startup-accelerators-of-2016/#38b2114624f2
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