businesses: failure. What makes an incubator different from the standard small business playing field, however, is that the dozen or so companies drawn together for the space of a summer know that someone has bet that they will succeed. The founders of the incubator have placed a wager on the team, and are working to help them win. If you happen to have found your way to a tech incubator, here are four tips to help you make the most of the summer: 1. Remember that the incubator is invested in you -- so focus on your team. Rich Aberman and Bill Clerico were another two young guys in Boston nursing an idea on little more than their own enthusiasm. Aberman dropped out of New York University Law School and Clerico left his job at a bank to start an electronic payments company called WePay from Clerico's couch. Business was slow, and so was funding. "We were raising money in the fall of 2008, which was not a good time to be raising money for a start-up," Aberman says. "We were hitting up every venture capitalist who would talk to us. We were doing that for about a year and running out of money." Then they applied -- and were accepted -- to two incubators, and accepted a stay at Y Combinator, Paul Graham's esteemed Bay Area incubator (which Inc. has called "perhaps the most ambitious campaign of start-up creation ever attempted"). Aberman and Clerico packed up a 1998 Toyota