I think you can&#x27;t just give an accelerator the binary label of good&#x2F;bad.<p>Sometimes different alumni have very different experiences.  Sometimes an accelerator&#x27;s niche is very relevant to one company&#x27;s problem but not another&#x27;s.  As Sam&#x27;s advice said -- it&#x27;s more useful to qualitatively talk to someone you know (and also trust, or at least consider credible) to evaluate their opinions on the accelerator.  There are too many unique factors.<p>Obviously, this is hard for a new-ish (pre-) accelerator, so one heuristic I&#x27;ve used instead is to review the experience of the accelerators&#x27; founders and mentor network.  It&#x27;s a start.