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Grants May Be Free, But They Do Come at a Price

Startup Professionals Musings

they can visit the directory of government grant alternatives, which is searchable and features more than a thousand federal programs, or more locally the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), with opportunities for high technology startups. Of course, nothing is really free in the business world. In the U.S.

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Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit

Steve Blank

With audit costs approaching a billion dollars a year the Pentagon had an opportunity to lead in modernizing auditing. In 2019, the audit cost $428 million in auditing costs ($186 million to the auditors along with $242 million to audit support) and another $472 million to fix the issues the audit discovered.