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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. Since its inception, iRobot has sold over 30 million robots globally. UEC Electronics — Engineering contracts.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. If the past is a prologue, they’ll go off to senior roles in defense, policy and to the companies building new disruptive technologies.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1 – Ash Carter

Steve Blank

Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. Read about all the class sessions here. And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations. Summit Fellows.

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Swedish Immigrant Helps Reinvent the Mouthguard Industry

Hearpreneur

We also have a scientific team, consisting of three chemical engineers in addition to Jan, who is the founder and the inventor. 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.