Andrew Maximov: ‘How could your startup benefit from an accelerator? Learn from our experience with CDL (Creative Destruction Lab)’
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OVERVIEW

1:05 About Creative Destruction Lab

2:40 Observation 1: CDL has a great set of internal processes.They use volunteers, and perfectly organize Zoom calls with 100+ participants

3:20 Observation 2: CDL takes a lot of your time — prepare to invest dozens of hours of your time if you want to do it right

4:36 Advice: CDL’s a goal-driven accelerator program. For every session, you need to set objectives and key results. The best way to maximize your outcomes from that is to synchronize it with your team’s internal goals for every quarter

5:12 Observation 3: To get the perfect mentor you have to sell yourself, but not oversell. They have to understand whether they can help you, to understand whether their experience is relevant to the problems you’re having right now. And they don’t have a lot of time to make a decision

5:47 Advice: Create a 60-second video with a good narrative that really explains what you’re building, your product, your issues, your stage

6:30 Advice: Be very concrete and specific about what you ask

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ANDREW MAXIMOV
Andrew Maximov is the CEO and Co-Founder of Precious Payload, a space-tech startup building software that helps to plan and execute satellite missions by taking care of the paperwork, technical analysis, and supply chain management. This SaaS service enables you to launch payloads to space to do a profitable business. Former tech-magazine editor and alumni of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute with a master's degree in micro- and nano-electronics, he was always passionate about space. Before focusing on the space domain, Andrew led several tech companies in the MENA region.
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