AngelPad: Seven Ex-Googlers Are About To Launch A New Incubator

Seems like an incubator is the wrong type of vehicle for them.<p>These guys seem to be great product guys...but they don't seem to have been founders prior to Google. What does a product guy at a corporation like Google know about jump starting a startup? That requires a completely different skillset and approach.<p>As a boutique VC firm, these guys would be perfect...as an incubator...not so much.

FYI, as a founder for a startup recently accepted into AngelPad, I added a detailed response on how it's different from Y-Combinator: <a href="http://www.quora.com/How-is-AngelPad-different-from-Y-Combinator" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/How-is-AngelPad-different-from-Y-Combin...</a>

Any chance for non Bay Area based startups? like startups near Google... Zürich? (In case they are on HN?)

The article starts with: <i>"The problem is obvious: it’s hard to launch a startup"</i><p>Really? Seems contradictory to what I see &#38; read elsewhere.

These guys appear to lack both technical backgrounds and start-up backgrounds. They're backers not hackers. Could be useful for some businesses, but for consumer web startups the YC approach and team seem far more relevant.

Have incubators worked out somewhere? I thought all the empirical evidence has shown they are a waste of effort.