Mentors matter: Effect of mentors on project success in the Incubator
summary
Analysis of 286 incubated projects uses scraped ASF records and a logistic model regularized by lasso with leave-one-out CV to pick sparse mentor effects. Results show 33 mentors with meaningful effects: 30 associate with lower-than-average graduation, 3 with higher, and knowing who mentors a project explains about 45% of variance (25% if restricting to mentors with multiple pods). Data include mentor counts per project and suggest mentor identity and experience materially shift graduation probability.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 4:23Open source as a public good
- 9:23Incubator mentorship programs
- 11:34Data analysis approach
- 12:40Mentor experience and graduation rates
- 18:42Mentorship team size impact
- 23:17Statistical modeling with Lasso regression
- 25:50Key findings on mentor effects
- 30:41Implications for mentorship strategies
- 32:26Acknowledgments and thanks
- 33:11Future research directions
- 39:43Q&A and closing remarks
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