incubator
An incubator is a box that warms the egg of a business not yet hatched with excessive expectations and meaningless workshops. On the surface, encouraging mentor voices resonate, while behind the scenes startup dreams wither alongside PowerPoint slides. Successful ventures earn badges as "our alumni", whereas failures become "experiment data" to persuade the next round of funding. Day after day, participants are chased by goal-setting and check-ins, investing in the bizarre exercise of creating unwanted services. Unicorn hunting is the main course, with real market realities left as an afterthought.