In conversation with Prof. Tina Seelig, StartX Founder and CEO Cameron Teitelman, along with StartX entrepreneurs Joseph Huang, Milt McColl and Smita Saxena, discuss the importance of tailored mentorship, the benefits of being a mentor and a culture within the accelerator where peers and alumni are expected to help newer members succeed.

Cameron Teitelman, founder and CEO of StartX, talks about the most important factors that the nonprofit looks for in entrepreneurs applying to the accelerator program: an intrinsic passion for the problem they're addressing, a highly functioning team and the ability to build quickly and iterate.

Cameron Teitelman, founder and CEO of StartX, describes how the nonprofit organization's metric for success is more than the market value that startups achieve. Besides counting up acquisitions and the dollar amounts invested in the companies, Teitelman says StartX, in keeping with its educational mission, measures the skills that founders gain in the accelerator program and the impact of those skills on their startup.

Cameron Teitelman, founder and CEO of StartX, describes how and why the nonprofit's startup accelerator began -- namely, to increase the speed of innovation by fostering a support system where fledgling founders could turn to peers and mentors for advice. Teitelman also details StartX's evolving relationship with Stanford, in response to a question from Prof. Tina Seelig.