Noble Ackerson is an enthusiastic local founder — he founded LynxFit, an Alexandria-based company that helps fitness trainers create workouts for mobile and wearables. But this current iteration of the product is not his first.

By his own admission, Ackerson has seen a lot of different sides of the startup world. “I’ve been part of failed large startups, ran small successful ones, and provided technical advisory services,” he writes. In 2012, though, Ackerson found himself doing something new — participating in an accelerator program.

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