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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. Time will tell whether the existing acquisition bureaucracy beats this down or if it truly can sustain a breakout from traditional contracting and gets embraced by visionary leadership.) And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

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

Steve Blank

All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. Time will tell whether the existing acquisition bureaucracy beats this down or if it truly can sustain a breakout from traditional contracting and gets embraced by visionary leadership.) And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

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How to Build a Healthcare Startup

Up and Running

Besides experience, they will also need to have a combination of leadership , communication, and presentation skills, plus financial and technical knowledge. Because of complex government regulations and a lengthy incubation period, funding a healthcare startup is more difficult compared to financing a tech startup. Know thy customer.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. Beyond the SBIR: Non-Dilutive Funding for Your Startup. Requires Columbia affiliation.

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Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.). Solution exploration and hypotheses testing : The ideas that pass through the prioritization filter enter an incubation process like Hacking for Defense /I-Corps, the system adopted by all U.S. It is a process from start to deployment.

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