Interview with Toby Krout of Boomtown on the Pros and Cons of Startup Accelerators




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Summary: Toby Krout is an entrepreneur, investor, and startup coach. He co-founded Boomtown, a startup accelerator in Boulder, Colorado in 2013 where he currently serves as the Executive Director. Boomtown’s mission is to understand and continuously improve the modern accelerator model for the benefit of entrepreneurs. His startups currently enjoy a 96% survival rate and 78% of them are generating revenues.<br> Toby has an MBA from Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. He is a co-founder and partner at Boulder based creative agency Atomic20. He was previously the Program Director for Governor Hickenlooper’s Colorado re-branding project. He has co-founded dozens of startups over 20 years and currently serves on the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Board of Directors at the University of Colorado.<br> You can more info on Toby at …<br> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/toby-krout/2/147/7b8" target="_blank">Toby on LinkedIn</a><br> <a href="http://www.boomtownboulder.com/" target="_blank">On Boomtown</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/boomtown" target="_blank">At Boomtown on Twitter</a><br>  <br>