Granted, I haven't been through an accelerator but I heard a great talk by Tim Falls of SendGrid who does have a lot of experience through TechStars and he covered this topic. To get full value out of an accelerator/incubator you need to be in a position to leverage the relationships you are making AND continue iterating and developing your product/business model. And two people isn't enough to do that. Love to hear your thoughts.

I see what he's saying. In terms of long term consideration though, would that early burst of ability and speed be worth some of the issues that might crop up later?

Just don't think you should optimize your team for that 3 month process