The Accelerating Space Conference

The concept is based around the idea of a business accelerator (originated by The Foundry in California for the medical technologies industry), which is for-profit company that becomes a temporary management team for new start-ups that the accelerator accepts as clients, provides some seed-funding, develops the business plan and mentors the entrepreneur to additional rounds of funding, while teaching the entrepreneur the necessary skills to lead the start-up to success. These accelerators apparently have a 85-90% success rate. We at the CSCA believe this is exactly what the entrepreneurial space industry needs to foster new commercial space efforts, so we are looking to provide a forum to discuss its creation.