Remove Business Plan Remove Government Remove Technical Review Remove Technology
article thumbnail

Government Grants for Small Business Startups: Finding and Applying for Them

Board Effect

Government grants for small business startups are plentiful if you know where to look for them. Federal, state, and local governments offer many grants for various types of businesses to help boost the economy. Despite what you may have heard, government grants are competitive, but they’re not necessarily out of reach.

article thumbnail

7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Products requiring changes to government regulations. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. Niche or low growth-rate businesses opportunities. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence community or other government agencies.

Lean 396
article thumbnail

Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

It seemed as though venture capitalists were throwing money at any Internet idea they could find – no business plan required. In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. We wanted in.

article thumbnail

7 Steps To Finding Investors Aligned With Your Values

Startup Professionals Musings

In your business, how much control are you willing to give up, how fast and far are you determined to grow, and are you willing to sell or stay for the long term? Create the ideal investor profile for your unique business. Your ideal investor is someone who will really value the benefits that come from advancing your business.

article thumbnail

7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

Products requiring changes to government regulations. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. Niche or low growth-rate businesses opportunities. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

article thumbnail

What Do You Need to Know Before Getting into Business?

The Startup Magazine

Useful Tools While you might not have a clear idea of the specifics of your business plan just yet (though it’s always worth thinking about), it will do you some good to brush up on the kinds of tools that are going to be useful for someone in your position. Your idea is a good one – it’s one that you believe in.