A three-month accelerator compresses the wrong work for a company still hunting for a problem

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Incubator equity stakes of 3 to 7 percent often buy little more than a desk and a mailing address Desk space plus a lawyer on call beats a big-brand incubator with no customers in the building Alumni networks are the only durable asset most incubators leave behind 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 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 How incubators screen applicants when every applicant sends the same pitch deck template A mentor roster of forty names usually means each founder gets two hours a month Accelerator demo day audiences are mostly other founders and service providers rather than checks