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Judith Rich Harris (February 10, 1938 – December 29, 2018) was an American psychology researcher and the author of The Nurture Assumption, a book criticizing the belief that parents are the most important factor in child development, and presenting evidence which contradicts that belief. [1]
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do is a 1998 book by the psychologist Judith Rich Harris. Originally published 1998 by the Free Press, which published a revised edition in 2009. [1] The book was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Embrace was founded in 2008 by Jane Chen, Linus Liang, Naganand Murty and Rahul Panicker.The four founders met as graduate students at Stanford University in a Design for Extreme Affordability course, where they were challenged to design an infant incubator that would cost 1% the price of traditional incubators (about $20,000 in the US).
The first business incubator was the Batavia Industrial Center, which opened in 1959 in Batavia, New York. [12] Two years earlier, Massey-Harris had announced the closure of its Batavia farm machinery factory, resulting in a giant vacant building and a local unemployment rate of 18 percent. [12]
Funds that can incubate and nurture young start-ups prior to venture capital funding. The program matches investments up-to 85% co-funding of a private incubator (maximum S$500,000). Incubators have the option to buy out NRF's equity of the company. Option is valid for 3 years (post TIS investment).
The first seed accelerator was Y Combinator, started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2005, and then later moved to Silicon Valley by Paul Graham. [3] It was followed by TechStars (in 2006), Seedcamp (in 2007), AngelPad (in 2010), Startupbootcamp (in 2010), Tech Wildcatters (in 2011), several accelerators of SOSV, Boomtown Boulder (in 2014) and Antler (in 2017).
Several of the incubator companies who survived the dot-com bubble switched to a virtual model. [1] A definition of a virtual incubator is provided by IdeaGist as: In a broader sense, virtual incubators can be defined as a catalyst for socio-economic development, providing a process for developing early stage ideas into viable ventures.
An incubator is a device simulating avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them. The common names of the incubator in other terms include breeding / hatching machines or hatchers , setters , and egg breeding / equipment .