Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

– The Torch Program. In size, scale and commercial results China’s Torch Program from MOST (the Ministry of Science and Technology) is the most successful entrepreneurial program in the world. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. (And Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end.

Venture Capital 163

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

– The Torch Program. In size, scale and commercial results China’s Torch Program from MOST (the Ministry of Science and Technology) is the most successful entrepreneurial program in the world. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2011

Potential impact: the SBA could adjust the definition such that businesses which are then deemed as too large, could no longer quality for certain programs, such as loans, tax incentives, etc. This law will increase the SBA budget for awards to business via the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs over the next 5 years.

Small Business 73

Small Business SBA SBIR Programming 73

David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks. Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. If you think I’ve missed any, please contact me.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley 60

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. conference attendees.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Note: The Hacking for Defense class was designed as “fundamental research” to be shared broadly and the results are not subject to restriction for proprietary or national security reasons.

Southern California 163

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 163

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. Bringing it back to inform the next iteration of the design and so forth. And you have to incent that.

Technology 300

Technology China United States Government 300

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

For example, in the last year the FDA announced its Pre-Cert pilot program which allows companies making software as a medical device to build products without each new device undergoing the FDA clearance process. Much like the NIH SBIR program.) What’s Not Working? The Future.

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

VC Adventure

APRIL 19, 2020

Overall, despite the size and scale of the existing aid packages, I think more needs to be done to help prop up the economy and especially to target some of the businesses that need and deserve help but are being left behind by the current programs. PPP Program. – Expand the program beyond the current $349Bn, of course.

SBIR 105

SBIR SBA Distribution Programming 105