After writing several posts on startup accelerators and incubators , I received an email from Jason Della Rocca. He’s been working on designing a game incubator in Montreal. Montreal is a good place, and perhaps a unique place, for building a game incubator. game incubator/accelerator. But there are also challenges. MORE >>

WSJ India Chief Mentor has an interesting article on incubators being an important engine of growth of entrepreneurship. Incubators have been known before to have an adverse selection problem. Simply stated, if an entrepreneur has an option to either get cash investment or incubator support, what are they likely to choose. MORE >>

continuations : As with the previous cycle, we are once again seeing the formation of many new incubators (Om has a post up which inspired my post). NYC is seeing a deluge of incubators, accelerators and all things in between. At what point are there too many, not all of the startups in these incubators are going to succeed? MORE >>

By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. Tags: entrepreneurs incubators relationships startups Relationships , I said back then. And I stand by that assertion. What’s special about these operations? 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 >>