1.   Incubators, however, must have a reliable source of funding and investors who understand the timeline of hatching these companies.

2.   That is not to say, however, that a for-profit incubator hatching biotech companies is doomed to fail.

3.   The Cambridge Incubator is a community concept of hatching Internet companies in a single space.

4.   The idea of companies that hatch other companies rose to popularity on the dot-com tidal wave, only to crash along with the Internet companies they spawned.

5.   The idea of companies that hatch other companies rose to popularity on the dot-com tidal wave only to crash along with the stocks of the Internet companies they spawned.

6.   Entrepreneurs are hatching start-up companies by the hundreds in university incubators.