The Startup Selection Process in Accelerators: Qualitative Evidence from Turkey

Abstract Startup selection is an essential mechanism of how accelerators create value. Through in-depth case studies 10 in Turkey, our research explores the process accelerators. Our findings indicate that overcome their context’s extreme uncertainty by involving various actors and reducing information asymmetries for investors startups. Accelerators tend to select effortlessly coachable startups, willing collaborate with accelerators, mentors, or other actors, passionate enough pressure creating a business at fast pace. also exhibits serves startups directing training them transmit right signals receivers, primarily investors. prefer work entrepreneurial teams are coachable, passionate, collaborative vibrate signals. Similarly, accelerators’ helps decreasing signaling noise mitigate asymmetry. By doing so, contribute well-functioning more effective entrepreneurship ecosystem.