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Ask HN: When Considering Incubators, What Do You Want to Know?

2 points by netmau5 on March 30, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments

I've seen a bunch of questions surrounding incubators on HN lately as well as a plethora of advice, answers, and information. At Sparkmuse, we're considering creating a library of information about the popular incubators and would like to know if you'd find it useful and, if so, what information you'd like to have.

		Ratings from startups who have participated in the program
		4 points
		Ratings from investors who get leads from incubators
		4 points
		General information about the incubator: investment vs equity taken, length of program, location etc
		4 points
		Personal experiences from being in a program
		3 points
		Information about specializations of the incubator
		3 points

onan_barbarian on March 30, 2011 [–]

The actual dollar values of the exits obtained by the startups from that incubator, as opposed to factor of 5-10 exaggerations from unsourced articles on TechCrunch?

netmau5 on March 30, 2011 | [–]

That would certainly be nice to know but most of those numbers are kept under wraps for various reasons.

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