Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Conservation and Development at Duke followed.

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Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Like the U.S.

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

government is the biggest spender and the biggest investor in research and development in the world. And some of it could be in development. So essentially, the government invests in both (research), and (development).” Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Like the U.S.

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

While the Innovation Clusters designated specific areas of the countries where high tech was to occur, it’s the Technology Business incubators located inside these clusters where the startup companies physically reside. In recent years Business Incubators have developed into diverse models. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

While the Innovation Clusters designated specific areas of the countries where high tech was to occur, it’s the Technology Business incubators located inside these clusters where the startup companies physically reside. In recent years Business Incubators have developed into diverse models. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We take tech experts, teach them the policy process through an in-residence fellowship program in the Bay Area, and encourage them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. Kairos Fellows. “The

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Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley 60

Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

Jan was all but happy about that and designed his own mouthguard that he started using. 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. So far we have received a Phase 1 (from DoD) and Phase 2 (from NSF).

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Advisory Board Michigan SBIR Revenue 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. In many cases I look at an SBIR and say "how about I just build that and sell it to you when it's done," but that is unrealistic today.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We have to have much more competitive processes for developing those concepts. How Should the DoD Spend Smarter?

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Technology China United States Government 300

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation in 2012 to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.)

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Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 163

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The pilot program allowed nine companies , including Apple, to begin developing products (like the Watch) using this regulatory shortcut. It may be the first one built into the watch, but it’s not the first Apple Watch ECG app cleared by the FDA – AliveCor , got over-the-counter-clearance in 2014 and Cardiac Designs in 2013.)

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VC Adventure

APRIL 19, 2020

This would both create economic development in communities where it is much needed but would also help shore up against the likely expansion of Covid-19 into rural communities that have, to date, been relatively spared from the virus (but we know it’s coming). Expand the Existing SBIR Programs. Expand the SBA Microloan Program .

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