David Cohen and David Brown co-founded three companies over the last twenty-five years. They've seen the highs of being an entrepreneur, but they've also seen the lows that entrepreneurs can face, which is why they also founded Techstars, a mentorship-driven accelerator program that invests in the world’s most promising entrepreneurs.

To Cohen and Brown, entrepreneurship means doing things your way. But, it never hurts to have some help. They have seen the support of an accelerator program enable entrepreneurs to succeed; or, when necessary, to fail fast, pivot, and rebuild.

With so much support, can there be a downside to participating in an accelerator? In this session, David Brown and David Cohen will dive into the advantages and disadvantages startups that enter an accelerator program will face.