Research on Incubation / acceleration models
Mix of early-stage-venture consultancy and investment (MVP Factory, Designer Fund)
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Incubators / Accelerators
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General thoughts
- A lot of the value of traditional incubators is how they help with access to venture capital, potential large customers etc, ideally through network (e.g. YC), or by helping you with your pitch, fundraising process etc. The other bits (e.g. mentorship, how to create a business plan etc) are generally of low value imo.
- I am not sure what an incubator looks like in a landscape where fundraising is not such a gated game where access to funding is both very scarce and very valuable - one of the big promises of web3, daos, defi etc is to shake this up right!
- I believe incubators are pretty much funded the way a traditional VC is funded (by going out there raising money from investors and gathering a bunch of LPs) where some VCs are also investors? But my experience is mainly on the side of being the startup or person applying to incubators, so insight from others would be helpful here
- In contrast maybe some of the membership models could be bootstrapped or combined with grant funding and not reliant on outside investment?
- It would be great to explore together what sort of model aligns best with our goal of empowering humane collaboration (broadly speaking, the current investment ecosystem is in my opinion NOT humane) as well as what would actually work best from a ‘making enough money to survive and thrive’ perspective
- I think the programme ↔ community dimension (not sure if that’s the best way to phrase it) is also interesting, do people get most value out of a structured programme, cohorts etc versus a more flexible community. And what works best for us here?