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Cisco set to open new accelerator focusing on ‘world-changing’ ideas

by yanivf on 8/14/13, 3:41 PM with 3 comments

• by mathattack on 8/14/13, 4:30 PM

  On paper this looks great. Get in on the startup game.

  The skeptic in me asks:

  - Do you lose out on network effects by limiting it to 5 at a time? (Isn't part of the benefit of ycombinator that you're part of the larger family?)

  - Are there any success stories of this type of in-house accelerator programs? I remember a lot of not so great outcomes in the 2001 timeframe.

• by byuric on 8/14/13, 4:01 PM

  Because every corporation these days want in house innovation and they can do it cheaply by incubating startups that they will eat once they are on something.

• by moranit on 8/14/13, 3:57 PM

  Cisco tries to create some buzz, as a company that most of the time you don't hear about...