Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. billion. Marty Zwilling. MORE >>

They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. While they’ll never admit it, the National Science Foundation was starting an incubator – the Innovation Corps – to take the most promising research projects in American university laboratories and turn them into startups. The I-Corps Incubator Program. MORE >>

It is no surprise that people are starting to announce that tech startup incubators have reached a precarious bubble.  A recent WSJ article declared a glut in tech incubators , citing the fact that there are nearly 100 in operation.  For obvious reasons, serial entrepreneurs would not get much value from an incubator. MORE >>

Energy IncubatorsSurge Houston Blog for Startup Houston. thought I might add my unique perspective on the Surge Energy Technology Accelerator program  given that my first startup NetworkOil was in the Digital Oilfield (a great web 1.0 If you are an entrepreneur and starting a company, why join an accelerator? Speed. In other words scalable. MORE >>

Startup Accelerators incubation startup accelerators year one labsEverywhere you turn there’s a new startup accelerator launching. Time will tell if that’s a good thing or not, but as I said in my last post, if you’re not doing it [an accelerator] to make money, you’re doing it wrong. Great! Who runs the accelerator? MORE >>