On Thursday, August 29, 2013 9:38:52 AM UTC-4, ruyoung wrote: > > That said, many incubators and accelerators are VC funded, and if their >> model simply isn't working, then they are more likely to pay out the lease >> or negotiate an early end and close their doors rather than waste money to >> change models to a different industry. That's a business decision, not a >> community decision. >> > > I would have to agree with Rachel that the current rush of VC funding for > accelerators is fueled by the dream of getting in on the ground floor of > the next Google or Facebook, and they will soon realize that the ROI isn't > there. Winning that game would require not hundreds of accelerators but > thousands. What is being sold as an invetment will soon start to look like > a charity project. >
> Our big concern shouldn't be that they will take over, but that real > coworking might pick up some of their failure stink when they go down. As > such I'm thinking that coworking should not try to compete, but distance > itself from accelerators and incubators and establish themselves as a more > sustainable business model with an actual future. > -- 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.
