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AcceleratorCON Put the Startup Accelerator on the Clock
Founders usually need a warm introduction. AcceleratorCON’s answer is a sports-style draft - applications, scouts, selections and private pitch meetings - built to turn conference mingling into an actual pipeline.
Resy’s First Idea Flopped. The Pivot Put 25,000 Venues on One Menu.
Resy began by asking diners to pay for scarce tables. Restaurants told the founders what they actually needed - better software - and that correction became a dining platform, an American Express loyalty engine, and a useful lesson in listening before scaling.
They Burned $550,000 Selling Trust. Then The Lifetime Value Co. Learned to Sell Curiosity
Josh Levy and Ross Cohen spent 11 months pitching an identity badge nobody would buy. Their pivot - from asking people to verify themselves to helping customers investigate the world around them - became a portfolio of data products used by millions.
Work-Bench Built a Venture Fund Around the Part Founders Dread: Selling
The New York seed investor treats go-to-market as a product: research the buyer, rehearse the pitch, survive procurement, and turn a first customer into a repeatable sales engine.
Langate Spent 30 Years Learning What Old Software Won’t Tell You
The New York-born, Ukraine-powered engineering company has built a quiet specialty: modernizing the healthcare and enterprise systems that cannot afford to stop working while they change.
Greenhouse Software
Greenhouse Software is a New York-based hiring platform that helps companies run structured, data-driven recruiting. Founded in 2012 by Daniel Chait and Jon Stross, it centralizes applicant tracking, interview scorecards, candidate sourcing, onboarding and reporting into one system used by more than 7,500 organizations. Rather than pushing automation for its own sake, Greenhouse pitches 'structured hiring' - a consistent, comparable process for evaluating candidates - and has layered in AI tools and fraud detection to keep that process reliable as application volumes surge.
Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, free educational retreat in New York for programmers who want to get better at their craft. There is no curriculum, no teachers, and no grades - people spend six or twelve weeks working on whatever they find most interesting, alone or in pairs, guided by a few light social rules. Founded in 2011 as Hacker School and renamed the Recurse Center in 2015, it is free for participants and funds itself by running a recruiting agency that connects its community with hiring companies.