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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

After seeing the process work so well for scientists and engineers in the NSF, we hypothesized that we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently. It’s open to NIH SBIR/STTR Phase 1 grantees. identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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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. UEC Electronics — Engineering contracts. iRobot — From robots to riches.

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Innovation at Argonne National Laboratory Incubator

The Startup Magazine

CRI is different from other incubators because it allows innovators/entrepreneurs to immerse inside a national laboratory, working alongside world-renowned scientists and engineers with whom they can share their ideas. ClearFlame Engines. It took just months for the first cohort to score some early wins. FGC Plasma Solutions.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. And our course advisor, Tom Byers , Professor of Engineering and Faculty Director, STVP.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. And our course advisor – Tom Byers , Professor of Engineering and Faculty Director, STVP.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The Small Business Innovative Research ( SBIR ) and Small Business Technology Transfer ( STTR ) programs are startup seed funds created by Congress to encourage U.S. The SBIR/STTR program made ~6,200 seed stage investments in 2014, dwarfing the seed investments made by venture capital.

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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.