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Mindreef, a start-up company that makes debugging software, found a garden that helped it grow, and recently sprouted its first product.
The Hollis company, made up almost solely of former NuMega Lab employees, has been nurtured over its roughly two-year life span at The Technology Garden, a business incubator on Proctor Road, in the former Transparent Language building.
NuMega founders Frank Grossman and Jim Moskun started the incubator after deciding retirement wasn't for them-at least not yet. In November 1997, the pair sold NuMega to Compuware Corp., one of the country's largest software companies, for $150 million in stock and chose to retire, at least briefly.
"It has really become an incubator of one," Grossman said, "with us spending all our time on Mindreef as investors and as software developers."
Once their former colleagues came forward...