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mHub opens much bigger facility to kick Chicago startups into high gear

TechCrunch

When mHub opened its doors in Chicago seven years ago, the vision was to create a traditional incubator for people making things. It would involve a prototyping lab, offices, shared workspaces, meeting rooms and classrooms. mHub supports startups both through its incubator and its accelerator program.

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

One failure mode for less effective accelerators, and even more so for the related “studio” or “incubator” model, is to pretend that people who otherwise would not be founders can be coached into the role with sufficient time and scaffolding. This has not been our experience.

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The New Economy Starts with Networks of Collaboration

Impact Hub

The effort inspired many similar successful initiatives around the Impact Hub world like the CadaDiaCuenta Hackathon with 18 participating countries in Latin America, or the Swiss #VersusVirus with 263 teams and their follow up incubation program. Taking in the inspiration from our network.