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This was basically the idea behind the round of incubators in the late 90s. My recollection is that they didn't work very well because they ended up being cost centers that the VCs had to manage. So they felt pressured to get as many of their companies enrolled and paying for the services as they could even if it was not in the company's best interest.

Usually the services were priced on a per-seat basis for something like $1-2k per month. It made sense for very small companies that had raised a few million, but once you hit 10-20 employees the math didn't work as well and so you had to either pay through the nose or scramble to find in-house replacements (not to mention office space). And if you were bootstrapped it was hard to justify the cost.




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