Agreed. I was previously a founder with a company in an incubator in which we were able to negotiate the terms of the deal. One founder spent 3 months basically trying to negotiate the terms and at the end we didn&#x27;t take that funding and it was like lighting 3 months of time of fire on equity discussions that didn&#x27;t matter if we weren&#x27;t successful. If you only have 2-3 founders, it&#x27;s a major distraction&#x2F;waste of time up front when you really need to be taking advantages of whatever the incubator provides (connections, mentorship, pilots, etc.) and executing. If there are no advantages, don&#x27;t join the incubator. If you don&#x27;t want to take VC funding, you probably shouldn&#x27;t join an incubator&#x2F;accelerator since VC connections are usually the few consistent things the incubator can provide.