Incubator equity stakes of 3 to 7 percent often buy little more than a desk and a mailing address

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A three-month accelerator compresses the wrong work for a company still hunting for a problem Why university incubators keep startups alive on life support instead of graduating them Corporate-backed incubators sell access to a parent company whose procurement team will still refuse to buy Desk space plus a lawyer on call beats a big-brand incubator with no customers in the building A mentor roster of forty names usually means each founder gets two hours a month Alumni networks are the only durable asset most incubators leave behind Accelerator demo day audiences are mostly other founders and service providers rather than checks The graduation date in an incubator contract is the clause founders read last and should read first How incubators screen applicants when every applicant sends the same pitch deck template Cohort programs force a demo day deadline on a product that needed six more months of customer calls