If I understand this correctly, the author was rejected from YC, failed to get any customer interest for his own startup, so he’s pivoting to running Hackathons in Universities as an incubator.<p>> Univation is the way to change the process and implement the above-listed solutions. An incubator program, for Universities, to let Student Founders start 1) on an already developed idea and 2) make them into teams.<p>This sounds like any other themed Hackathon event without pre-formed teams. My concern is that he doesn’t mention what, if any, financial interest he takes in their output.<p>If he’s simply coordinating students with experts in a mentoring environment for fun and learning, that’s great.<p>If he’s taking advantage of students to do work on other people’s (“experts”) ideas and keeping large portions of the equity for himself and experts, that’s not so great.<p>Until we have the details, I’m skeptical. I’ve seen a lot of great things come out of university entrepreneurship programs, but there are constantly sharks in the water around enterprising college students. If you find yourself approached by one of these programs, make sure to find an external mentor without a financial interest who can provide some guidance and review terms for you.