FounderFuel emphasizes mentor interaction in second cohort
By Francis Moran
FounderFuel is a Montreal-based startup accelerator for which I have been a mentor through its first two cohorts. I recently caught up with John Stokes, a partner with Real Ventures, the seed-stage venture firm behind FounderFuel. Following is an edited and condensed version of our conversation. I started by asking John how FounderFuel was going in general, now that it was well into its second cohort of teams.
“Most of the people involved here, certainly myself and (Real Venture general partner) Alan (MacIntosh), have been pretty involved in other accelerator programs to one extent or another. But when you are running on your own and you really get down to brass tacks, there’s always more to it than you see. We took a long time to decide when we were ready to do it, and I think that decision, that preparation was worth while.
