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Incubator
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Lemnos: A Silicon Valley Incubator for Hardware
Businessweek's 2012 profile of Lemnos Labs, one of Silicon Valley's first hardware-focused startup incubators. Captured the beginning of the hardware startup renaissance, fueled by Kickstarter, cheaper manufacturing, and the maker movement.
The Dirty Secret Behind the Incubator Boom
VentureBeat's 2012 exposé on the incubator bubble — by then hundreds of programs were copying Y Combinator's model but producing almost no successful companies. The economics of most incubators served the operators, not the startups.