# WebFWD: Accelerating a Better Internet

By [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman) · 2013-02-13

products-services, tech-design-internet

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I’ve always loved [Mozilla](http://mozilla.org)'s mission and tactics - using awesome consumer products as the lever to make the web a better place to be. That’s why I’m happy to join their [WebFWD accelerator program](http://webfwd.org) as a scout.  That just means that I’m one of [many folks](https://webfwd.org/about/team/) who are on the lookout for products and companies that would be a good fit for the WebFWD program. WebFWD is a slightly different kind of accelerator — it’s not a full-court-press in-person bootcamp, and it doesn’t take an equity stake for participation.  The idea is to give promising projects that advance the mozilla [mission](https://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.en.html) that extra boost they need to become real (or even more real). WebFWD recently [graduated its second class](http://blog.webfwd.org/post/41453803819/and-we-have-graduated-webfwd-ii), and has just [welcomed its third](http://blog.webfwd.org/post/42931058957/introducing-our-new-webfwd-iii-cohort).  You can see the whole list of projects and companies in the WebFWD family [here](https://webfwd.org/portfolio/). Here’s to the continued development of products and businesses that promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web.

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*Originally published on [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman/webfwd-accelerating-a-better-internet)*