A founder ran a women's business accelerator for six years, managing three cohorts in just five hours monthly. By year five, despite the program's success and profitability, she felt stagnant, like a comedian repeating the same routine. She decided to change or shut it down.
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I ran an accelerator for six years in my business. A business accelerator. Six months for women who were like one to three years into business. And, and, and it was a great program. Oh my God, it was so fulfilling. It was such great money. I had so much fun with it for about five years and I went six. And that last year I knew heading into the tail end of the fifth year I was like, I know I need to change this up, but how do I give up this thing? That's so easy. It takes like five hours of my time each month to run three groups of people. It was really, I'm like, it was the ideal business model, but I just, I was done. It's like doing the same stand up comedy routine night after night after night without introducing new jokes. It's like, oh my gosh, kill me now.