If you're spending a lot of time talking about JumpStart and how they are spending their fund, you're focusing on the wrong thing.  

For those out of the loop, there's a town-hall style meeting tonight where apparently the Cleveland community is going to "lash out" about how JumpStart, a local Cleveland start-up incubator, is spending their fund.  However, everyone is completely missing the real point, Cleveland only has one incubator with a legitimate fund.

This is a big problem for Cleveland.  With a nationwide start-up talent crunch and, a looming drought in applications to all incubators, Cleveland is becoming less and less competitive nationally.  We simply cannot compete against YCombinator, Capital Factory, Tech-Stars, Founders Institute and, Sand Hill Rd.  

If we can't compete for new, exciting and innovative start-ups then we wont be able to compete for top start-up talent.  This will continue to rapidly degrade so long Cleveland is a one-trick pony.  Cleveland needs a plethora of legitimate funds.  Then, if one fund is "flaking", the "market" will take care of itself.  A lot of funds means a lot of start-ups and, we become more attractive on the talent market.  No different then in the Valley, New York City, et-cetera.

So please stop talking about JumpStart and start figuring out how we can get more incubators, accelerators and investment firms funding start-ups in Cleveland.