Accelerators help build companies quickly and provide a high concentration of support in a short amount of time. These programs provide access to new customers, mentors, educational programming, and other services. But when alumni are interviewed about what they got from the experience, they tend to harp on one benefit in particular, the people they met and the resultant network created.

Your product will only be as good as the people who build it. You want to have the best product, which means you need the best software engineers and developers to build it. If you’ve ever hired developers, then you have experienced the problem with supply and demand in this particular market.