Reflecting on 2015 and Looking Ahead to 2016

With 2015 behind us, we thought we’d share some thoughts about the year and what…

Growthverse: An Interactive Visualization of the Marketing Technology Universe

The role of the…

Reflecting on 2016 and Looking Ahead to 2017

This November, we gathered our global founders and CEOs in San Francisco for our Accel Connect event. For part of the day, we discussed the current environment, independent of founders’ stage, as well as the changing requirements for building great…

The Rise of OPEN Innovation: The 3P’s for Building a Durable Open Software Company

Accel recently hosted more than 100 of the top open source executives and thought leaders for a full-day event covering the next wave of great companies building atop OPEN technologies…

Let’s Talk About Scale

This piece debunks misinterpretations about what it means to scale, when…

Giving Gone Wild

In Sunday’s Fashion & Style section of The New York Times, essayist Judith Newman penned a critique of GoFundMe, which also…

On-Demand: It’s About the People, People.

I love my on-demand services. They are a lazy man’s dream. No need to plan ahead; no…

Why Supercell’s founder wants to be the world’s least powerful CEO

Secrets from the frontline

Brave, bold, or even brash — founders need to be pretty fearless, but the line between audacity and arrogance is a thin one. We think there’s…

My Next Chapter

All early stage companies start as incredible possibilities. From this beginning, the journey that entrepreneurs and their teams…

How two guys conquered Russian e-commerce with a Swedish ethos

Secrets from the frontline