TALES FROM THE HATCHERY SIX MONTHS AGO, INCUBATORS WERE THE HOT CONCEPT IN TECH. IN THE POST- MARKET CRASH WORLD, THEY'RE STILL STRIVING TO NURTURE INNOVATION, BUT THE PRESSURE IS ON.

From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 18, 2000| Author: Michelle Chihara, Globe Correspondent | Copyright information

Cambridge Incubator's industrial chic office space was originally supposed to include roll-up garage doors. "Each member company would have had one," says Sven Schroeter, codesigner of the space. "The idea was to take the mythical concept of two guys in their garage pulling off Apple computer, and have a memory of that." The idea was ultimately abandoned. Now it's a distant memory of a moment, six months ago, when incubators - which provide technology start-ups with a combination of seed-s...

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