ationships with legit Silicon Valley investors.
Elizabeth Yin runs the MV accelerator and she was a great point of contact throughout the program.
Just keep in mind that you still control the destiny of your own company, whether you do 500 or not. There’s no accelerator or investor out there that can make your startup better or worse than it already is. All it can do is speed up the path you’ve already decided to take. 
Our batch on demo day ^