Abstract :
E-commerce incubators have become a new hot way to foster growth for the dot.com companies. New e-commerce incubators functioned as new dot.com factories by offering office space, funding, hardware, software, hosting services call centers and physical infrastructure and some other services to dot.com start-ups. Some of the popular ones are Idealab, Hotbank, Garage.com, CMGI, eCompanies, eHatchery, Camp6, Epoch and Latitute Blue. This paper gives a snap shot of the working incubator model, elaboration of the differences between venture capital (VC) firms and e-commerce incubators and future outlook of the e-commerce incubators after the dot.com shakeout
Keywords :
electronic commerce; investment; management; CMGI; Camp6; Epoch; Garage.com; Hotbank; Idealab; Latitute Blue; dot-com factories; e-commerce incubators; eCompanies; eHatchery; venture capital firms; working incubator model; Commercialization; Companies; Hardware; Internet; Production facilities; Space technology; Technology management; Venture capital; Virtual colonoscopy;
