Incubators and accelerators

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Incubator equity stakes of 3 to 7 percent often buy little more than a desk and a mailing address Accelerator demo day audiences are mostly other founders and service providers rather than checks Applying to six accelerators at once and accepting the first offer is how founders end up in the wrong city Rolling-admission incubators let a team start in March while cohort accelerators make it wait until September How incubators screen applicants when every applicant sends the same pitch deck template Accelerator applications ask for traction metrics that seed-stage companies are two quarters away from having Equity-free accelerator models trade the check for a fee and the terms look friendlier until the follow-on round What a rejected accelerator applicant should ask the program before reapplying next cycle Remote accelerators cut the relocation cost and most of the peer learning that made the cohort worth it Cohort programs force a demo day deadline on a product that needed six more months of customer calls The graduation date in an incubator contract is the clause founders read last and should read first Choosing between an accelerator and an incubator comes down to whether the bottleneck is money or calendar time A three-month accelerator compresses the wrong work for a company still hunting for a problem Questions to ask an incubator before signing: who the mentors actually are and how many hours they give Accelerator-style programs inside universities rarely survive the graduation of their first cohort

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