1 - what's the proportion of incubators/accelerator companies are pursuing consumer applications? 2 - it's very easy to pick home run successes that are rare

1 - what's the proportion of incubators/accelerator companies are pursuing consumer applications? 2 - it's very easy to pick home run successes that are rare to begin with. It's relatively easy to crunch numbers to give the number of successes that come out of an accelerator. It doesn't make sense to cherry pick those successes to be compared to let alone conclude that they will essentially reduce your chances. I'd guess that the odds about the same between accelerator and non/accelerators wrt the success the author is talking about. 3 - I don't think the proposition makes much sense to begin with given how accelerators are so trendy and may be of questionable quality. A note: this is my anecdotal observation, I haven't taken a look at incubators/accelerators in detail. 4 - Has anyone done any investigative work on where accelerator alumni have gone? There are many other benefits to incubators that can't be quantified by a binary outcome. I'd guess that in a good incubator (like YC), alumni are on average, better off, for a variety of reasons