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Yes. I predict a high number of start-ups left hanging in the wind without follow-on funding after completing incubators.
if you decide to quit your pursuit of building a startup after the 3 months in an incubator, then you probably wouldn't of succeeded even within a big incubator.
Yes. But they're all missing the point. It's the quality of advisors and the nature of their advice that shapes a great startup. Just throwing some cash at them is akin to giving fish to a poor man. The poor man will eat the fish and ask for more. But teach him to fish and he may become a millionaire fisherman.
I don't think Y Combinator can be replicated. PG's experience and his contribution to this community is unparalleled. I'm NOT against other incubators coming up - but just saying its highly unlikely they'll achieve the level of success Y Combinator has.
i think it time to start an incubator incubator or is such an incubator already incubated?
Is there a "first to declare a bubble" bubble? Bubbles aren't just "lots of people are trying the same thing" or "lots of people are trying to copy a new idea" or "people discover a new market", you know. The value of the term "bubble" has been frittered away to nearly nothing by people rushing to slap the label on everything showing the slightest bit of growth. Sure, a lot of these guys will end up failing or acquir…
So while flippant, the goal was to point out the disparity in the perceived value generated by incubators and the investment to build them. And wholeheartedly it was flippant and designed to garner attention, but not out of context. Sorry.