Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business. Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S.

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Early Stage SBIR Technical Review Seed Stage 225

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. They know this and know that weapons that can be built at a fraction of the cost and upgraded via software will destroy their existing business models.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He wanted to build an innovation pipeline that would allow the Navy to: Create “dual-use” products (build solutions that could be used for the military but also sold commercially, and attract venture capital investments.) Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. However, you can certainly raise some of the capital through bootstrapping and the rest via seed funding.

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