[PragmaticPulp]

> What is the threshold one needs to cross before they try an idea?

That’s missing the point. The concerns aren’t about his personal business. The concerns are about the students he’s trying to influence and take equity from.

Once you start putting yourself in a position to take equity in the labor and businesses of University students, the bar is higher.

> I don't think his incubator is going to be very successful so it's no big loss to anyone

You’re still missing the point. If his incubator isn’t very successful, then presumably any of the students who become involved with his incubator won’t be successful either. It’s not fair to the University students to be drawn into an incubator program that we can all apparently agree is not on a track for success. I just hope Universities are smart enough to not endorse this idea.

[adamlangsner]

It's not going to be successful, not because it's gonna gain a lot of traction and then go bust, but because no one's going to sign up for this. Look at the comments in this thread, read his landing page. It's obvious you wouldn't take this seriously as an incubator. It's not even an incubator, it's just google form he's using to do customer development. He'll probably have some conversations with the few people he gets to fill it out and then realize it's too much work or it's a bad fit and he'll move on to his next idea or maybe it'll morph into something else. Who knows? You make it seem like he's this charlatan peddling some false incubator product to unsuspecting founders. He's a 20 year old college student from Macedonia dipping his toe into something.