Talk:Business incubator/Archive 1

Archive 1

Examples

Examples of business incubators of various types would be illuminating. -- Beland 02:27, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Copyvio

I should have been clearer: there is text in this article which clearly came from the reference I added, in particular, the dot points in the History section. Since I'm not sure how much of the text came from that site, it's best to at least cite the reference until someone can figure it out. Stevage 11:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah, thanks, Stevage, that sure explains why the reference is there. I feared it was just somebody who was happy to have found a random study on business incubators and thought it'd be nice to tell the world... Classical geographer 19:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Commercial links

Under the heading of "Wikipedia is not a directory of links", the "Business Incubator links" section seems to be a random collection of commercial links. The national incubator associations seem plausible as further sources of information in general, but the others would seem merely to be "links people happen to have added" as opposed to anything more useful. Any opposition to wiping the section completely? - David Oberst 06:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree completely. Although the number of spam links added is not that large, the article might even be semi-locked. Classical geographer 10:58, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree as well, and I replaced the external links with a link to dmoz, which has been pretty successful with similar situations on other articles. - MrOllie (talk) 15:36, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Graduate success rate

"Historically, 87% of incubator graduates stay in business." This is a statistic cited from 1997. It has probably changed since then with both the dot-com bubble era and the social/mobile explosion that is going on now. I suggest finding a more recent statistic or removing this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.116.199.93 (talk) 18:46, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Quite so, but the function in the text was to contrast with the 44% in businesses outside such support programs, I think; I've added another source and referenced what I believe to have been the ultimate source for this comparison. Classical geographer (talk) 10:21, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

"Successful completion of a business incubation program increases the likelihood that a startup company will stay in business for the long term" -- This sentence sounds like marketing talk, is stated too boldly and only has rather flimsy references to back it up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.145.165.125 (talk) 01:23, 6 August 2012 (UTC)