Is an accelerator still worth doing for your business in 2025?
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How to build a $20M fuel business. Lessons learned from Building Europe’s first On Demand fuel station from its COO
Before Shell tap-up and Cafu and others, we built Europe’s first on demand fuel station. We saw the future, we had an amazing team and we were ready to go. I was the COO of pompfuel and we were there from the start.

Its hard enough to build a business but here are some of the positives:
1) the support
2) the network you need. For example, pilots you will need with corporates
3) Access to investors
The negatives:
1) taking your time
2) The equity you have to give up
Conclusion:
If you have to build remember it would be a good idea to build with a top tier accelerator. But not ALL are equity, however, if its YC definitely take it or apply if you have not done so.
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Is antler or any accelerator worth doing to start my company
Entrepreneurs do need a lot of support and it’s not easy to build a company. The antler ecosystem is great and the networking with high caliber people is top-notch. If you are looking for an experience that combines motivation top MBA compared with seasoned entrepreneurs such as myself, (feel free to add me on LinkedIn) I would suggest going for antler.
