Questions to ask an incubator before signing: who the mentors actually are and how many hours they give

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Incubator equity stakes of 3 to 7 percent often buy little more than a desk and a mailing address How incubators screen applicants when every applicant sends the same pitch deck template A three-month accelerator compresses the wrong work for a company still hunting for a problem Choosing between an accelerator and an incubator comes down to whether the bottleneck is money or calendar time The graduation date in an incubator contract is the clause founders read last and should read first Cohort programs force a demo day deadline on a product that needed six more months of customer calls Rolling-admission incubators let a team start in March while cohort accelerators make it wait until September Accelerator-style programs inside universities rarely survive the graduation of their first cohort What a rejected accelerator applicant should ask the program before reapplying next cycle Letting startups bid on city contracts does more for a local scene than any incubator