Are hackers just another spin on frat-boy?

Having twice been rejected for the same reason by prominent investor conduits ("incubators" by another name), I'm trying to understand what these rejections are telling me. The common thread has been the lack of a "team" which the second incubator insisted meant "co-founders." At the same time I'm reading a spate of articles about misogyny and generally anti-social behavior among twenty and thirty-somethings - and older - in Silicon Valley. In short, Fox-News behavior.

As an old "loan wolf" from the Vietnam generation (read the 60s, really "old" now) I'm trying wrap my had around what this all means. Do I really need a "team," moreover a team which I call "co-founders" to get started in a business I've put significant amounts of my own resources into. Lots of my own money. Or is this some kind of millennial group-think? Why do I need a team to get funded? Don't really get it.

This is not even slightly to argue that I don't need a team to succeed or that any one person can claim the success of an enterprise (although we continue to lionize many socially inept or even frightening persons who have). Why do I need a team or co-founders? It's a question for you hackers who The Dump tells us are 400-pounders on a bed somewhere, one supposes his idea of the cyber "loan wolf"? Why can't I build a team from solo investor funding and go from there? Because, demonstrably, I can't.

Not against a team of co-founders which I'm trying to form assiduously. But, seriously, I don't think incubators, including the sponsor of this message board, have an argument. Strikes me as frat-boy group-think. Why am I wrong?

If you want to respond, please don't argue that I think loan wolves can survive without their pack. Because I don't.