Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Operational Concepts are the Minimum Viable Products of the practical application of a doctrine against a specific enemy in a specific environment.) There’s something wrong when the cost of entry of Palantir , SpaceX and Anduril as new DOD contractors required billionaire founders.) New startups/companies rarely break into the system.

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Gust

MAY 11, 2014

Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups. Professional help costs money. Pursue grants and investors in parallel.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2014

With that SBIR-Phase 1 funding the teams were trying to establish the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of their technology. They were certain their customers were Radiation Oncologists, that MOA data was needed, that they needed to have Phase 1 trial data to license their product, and needed >$5 million and 6 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2011

I applaud the initiative, and encourage startups in this direction, but there are costs. Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. A good place to start is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Operational Concepts are the Minimum Viable Products of the practical application of a doctrine against a specific enemy in a specific environment.) There’s something wrong when the cost of entry of Palantir , SpaceX and Anduril as new DOD contractors required billionaire founders.) New startups/companies rarely break into the system.

Technology 232

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Thanks to organizations like DIU we’ve gotten much better at tech scouting; finding promising technologies that might have a military application, getting them on that initial contract – on a SBIR contract or an OTA prototyping contract. Rather just rewarding this rigorous, we only care about cost and schedule.

Technology 308

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

That is just currently a full personal money sucking process, as you're taxed on income and have no business breaks yet, besides supplies, the majority of costs to start up a business have no tax advantages to creating a start up. Biggest thing for me not on your list is more tax advantages to starting up a company self-funded.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other product has since the original IPhone. This wasn’t just another product announcement from Apple. But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. I don’t own an Apple Watch. I do have a Fitbit. In the U.S.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

For example, having flexible work hours means you can hire talented candidates from different time zones, which will increase your productivity while keeping the costs down. Just claiming your product or service is revolutionary isn’t going to be enough. How will your product or service make their lives easier?

SBIR 73

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

I’m a journalist and a children’s author, I have had my own production company and I have worked in television. The science team is funded by an SBIR grant from NSF and we are very proud to be among the few companies in the country that actually have been funded. My background is in media. But that was then….:-).

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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.) Dual-use” products reduce the cost for defense adoption of products.

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