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What is a small business incubator? Empirically "incubators" in the silicon valley / software world have all been total failures.
by menloparkbum 19y ago
What is a small business incubator? Empirically "incubators" in the silicon valley / software world have all been total failures.
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- pg 19y agoAs far as I can tell it means an investor whose space the startups work in. We deliberately avoided that, because we feel it hurts the startups. It puts the founders in the position of employees. Plus offices are actually crappy places to start startups. Apartments are better.
- ambition 19y agoI've also heard of "incubators" which were really "rich guy paying others to do his ideas." I agree though, I can't think of a single example of a successful incubator that called themselves an incubator.