e-commerce incubators: the new dot-com factories

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.