http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-14/waiting-for-the-accelerator-bubble-to-pop
At the upcoming "Triangle Entrepreneurship Week" there is a panel presentation on "Co-working in the Triangle". The panelists are all accelerators or incubators. None of the local coworking spaces are invited to participate. Here is something I apparently worry about more than other coworking space owners: last I heard there were almost 700 incubators in America. "Incubators" are now not so cool anymore, so lots of folks seem to be switching to an "acclerator model". Its not clear that they will do any better than incubators that failed. Is anyone else worried that SEVEN HUNDRED incubators & accelerators in america could suddenly decide that they need to become coworking spaces?! There are also about 700 coworking spaces in america. Imagine a world where every single coworking space was suddenly competing with an incubator/accelerator that was funded by the local city/chamber of commerce/university/VC community. These new entrants can cause lots of trouble, especially in small markets where they can outspend a small coworking space by a factor of 10, easily. Anyone else pondering these types of issues? Robert Bull City Coworking -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
