I came across this feed of posts by Dave at a Seed Funding panel at the Founders Fund. It is a good summary of several incubators and seed level funds, including the amount invested and what that investment carries with it. It is a bit difficult to find the concise thread on Twitter, so just reposting it here to make it easier to parse.
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#FOF Incubator Panel
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#FoF @davidcohen: “the scarce resource in incubators these days isn’t $25K… it’s [good] mentorship”
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#FoF @TheFunded: “when i was a young man at IdeaLab, we had to walk 5 miles uphill to school (BOTH WAYS!)”… 😉
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#FoF @TheFunded : “I don’t need to make money… i just want more rainbows & unicorns!”
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#FoF @davidcohen: #TechStars exits: SocialThing (AOL), IntenseDebate (Automattic), BrightKite (Limbo), FilterBox (Jive)
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#FoF @TheFunded “170 companies enrolled in Founders Institute, so far we have 41 graduates”
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#FoF @rsohoni “for #seedcamp, we like to make expert svc providers avail but leave it to entrepreneurs to make decisions”
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#FoF quotable @TheFunded “most commercial real estate incubators are douchebags… at 30% vacancy rates, lots of folks are incubators”
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#FoF @TheFunded:Founders Institute did ~40 last year, aiming for hundreds this year (feeder to other incubator programs)
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#FoF @TechStars does 30 startups / yr (3 cities); @seedcamp 10/yr (moving to 15/yr); @bootuplabs does 6-8 /yr
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#FoF @rsohoni EU-based incubator @seedcampinvests 30K-50K Euros (~$50-80K USD) for 5-10% preferred
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#FoF @dannyrobinson says @bootuplabs uses $150K conv note w/ $850K cap (founders must take $50K; rmng $100K at founder optn)
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#FoF @dannyrobinson saying that @Techstarsreally investing more like $30-50K if you count services / facility etc
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#FoF quote @davidcohen: “@Techstars works best in places w/ chip on its shouldr” (transltn: we’re not in Silicon Valley 😉
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#FoF @davidcohen @Techstars puts in $6K per founder (max $18K) in exchange for ~6% common
