I'm a bit skeptical. I'm not sure that a creative enterprise like entrepreneurship is amenable to any sort of factory model. While theoretically it could be a

I'm a bit skeptical. I'm not sure that a creative enterprise like entrepreneurship is amenable to any sort of factory model. While theoretically it could be a bit like drug discovery -- make lots of permutations, test them, iterate, goal seek -- the problem is with the human factors. Companies aren't organic molecules that can be reliably produced and then re-produced. They're made out of people. I suspect that these entities would become echo chambers dominated by cronyism. The term "stars" already gives me that feel. The incentive structure gets all wacked out... it ends up being more about status within the startup ecosystem than shipping stuff that works and that the market likes. The SV ecosystem in particular already has this problem, and concentrating it more into a more institutional model might make it worse. I think the same problem haunts modern-day academic "factory science," where people who specialize in getting grants are very good at getting grants and churning out very mundane, plodding science. The best accelerators escape some of this problem by accepting open applications from anyone, anywhere.