Not sure if others share the same view, but I view many startup accelerators as startups themselves -- heck, nearly the entire industry is a startup. We should

Not sure if others share the same view, but I view many startup accelerators as startups themselves -- heck, nearly the entire industry is a startup. We should assume that startup accelerators themselves can fail. The Y-Combinators and TechStars are the Tier-1 players in this space, but that's only getting their members to reach funding -- certainly nothing about exits. Evaluating accelerators should be akin to evaluating venture capital firms -- return on investment. Last I checked, I think VC firms were down over the past ten years, yet I don't see anyone calling them failures.