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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Evidence-based Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? —— When I wrote Four Steps to the Epiphany and the Startup Owners Manual , I believed that Life Sciences startups didn’t need Customer Discovery.

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Grant Applications Often Provide Early-Stage Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

A critical stage for most first-time entrepreneurs is getting their idea developed into at least a prototype to validate their technology. through Grants.gov , an online directory of more than 1,000 federal grant programs that don’t look for equity or payback. Also, it’s important that you understand just how the SBIR program works.

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Government Grants for Small Business Startups: Finding and Applying for Them

Board Effect

Government grants for small business startups are plentiful if you know where to look for them. We’ll go through what a business government grant for startups is, how it differs from a business loan, and give you some good information about finding and applying for a government business grant. What Is a Government Business Grant?

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

Steve Blank

Over the last two and a half years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 300 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how to fail less, increasing their odds for commercial success. It’s open to NIH SBIR/STTR Phase 1 grantees. The class is team based.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Stay tuned.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

We just had our first week of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. If the past is a prologue, they’ll go off to senior roles in defense, policy and to the companies building new disruptive technologies. Technology to Weapons to Doctrine. And that has happened to us. As we described how the U.S.

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Innovation at Argonne National Laboratory Incubator

The Startup Magazine

That’s why I’m so excited to serve as Director of the Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) program at the U.S. CRI Program. CRI is a two-year program for innovators focusing on energy and science technologies. Through its annual application call, four to six teams are selected to join the program. Unique Resources.