Hello, I’m new here but it seems to me a little confusing in the current way the post is framed and I think this is because AI seems to bucket things that are a bit more nuanced. The title in itself is misleading because food fellowships by SMA is not an incubator so why is it in there. I dont think a human would write this into the post, same for the RP founder support and it even says Myrias is a venture studio not an incubator. So the title says a map of incubators but its a map of some parts of the talent system and not others with a few incubators and a few other things?
Thanks for reading closely, and welcome to the Forum! You’re right that the title overreaches: three of the nine entries aren’t technically incubators, and I say so in each of their sections. A better title would have used “Founding pathways”, but people tend to recognise “incubator” better, so that’s why I chose it.
On why they’re included: the scope I set was programs whose goal (or likely outcome) is launching new organisations for animals. If you’re a would-be founder, RP’s funded runway or an SMA fellowship can get you there just as much as a classic cohort incubator, and I’d rather you see the full set of routes than only the ones with “incubator” in their name. Deliberately not covered: the rest of the talent system (courses, fellowships without a founding angle, job boards), which would be a different and much longer post.
One correction to your read: the bucketing you’re describing was mine, not the AI’s. I chose to include those three because I think excluding them would leave founding options out.
Hello, I’m new here but it seems to me a little confusing in the current way the post is framed and I think this is because AI seems to bucket things that are a bit more nuanced. The title in itself is misleading because food fellowships by SMA is not an incubator so why is it in there. I dont think a human would write this into the post, same for the RP founder support and it even says Myrias is a venture studio not an incubator. So the title says a map of incubators but its a map of some parts of the talent system and not others with a few incubators and a few other things?
Thanks for reading closely, and welcome to the Forum! You’re right that the title overreaches: three of the nine entries aren’t technically incubators, and I say so in each of their sections. A better title would have used “Founding pathways”, but people tend to recognise “incubator” better, so that’s why I chose it.
On why they’re included: the scope I set was programs whose goal (or likely outcome) is launching new organisations for animals. If you’re a would-be founder, RP’s funded runway or an SMA fellowship can get you there just as much as a classic cohort incubator, and I’d rather you see the full set of routes than only the ones with “incubator” in their name. Deliberately not covered: the rest of the talent system (courses, fellowships without a founding angle, job boards), which would be a different and much longer post.
One correction to your read: the bucketing you’re describing was mine, not the AI’s. I chose to include those three because I think excluding them would leave founding options out.