The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

For instance, ClearFlame Engines — which is developing drop-in engine technology to allow diesel generators and heavy-duty vehicles to run on biofuel without a loss of power — won a $225,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). FGC Plasma Solutions. Atlas Energy Systems. Program Impact.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. When they graduate, the Stanford students on these teams have the pick of jobs in startups, companies, and consulting firms. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Every investor in your startup, even friends and family, normally expects a share of your company (equity), which means your return for all your effort goes down quickly. Funding is a seemingly never-ending task for startups, so make sure all your research, business plan work and execution plans will work in either environment.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 12, 2015

government invests more than $2 billion every year in promising new startups with creative innovations. In Austin, startups including Tevido Biodevices, Spot on Sciences and Lynx Labs have received Small Business Innovation Research grants. So how does a startup go about getting one of the SBIR grants?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. When they graduate, the Stanford students on these teams have the pick of jobs in startups, companies and consulting firms. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The SBIR/STTR program represents a critical source of seed funding for U.S. Eleven U.S.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2020

Not many startups in our community had done much government contracting before this and most thought it was a waste of their time. We’ve launched SBIR Accelerator, a deliberate vehicle to connect startups, defense industry, and investors to a funded innovation project and maximize DoD grant funding. application cycle!

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

As the healthcare industry continues to adopt digital technology, the number of healthcare startups is also growing. Here are seven factors that you must take into account to build a successful health startup and keep it afloat forever. In fact, startups have to stay one step ahead of the changing market conditions.

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2014

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, for example, is one of the most lucrative sources of federal grants for high-tech startups or high-growth firms (more on SBIR below). SBIR grants for R&D businesses. SBIR is a federal program, overseen by the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2014

A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups. That is time and resource that you must add to the million other high-priority startup tasks. entrepreneur funding grants startup' Processing and approvals take time. Marty Zwilling.

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David Teten

AUGUST 8, 2011

He concludes by asking his readers to look into grant programs available for startups. Additionally, GrantWatch seems to be the only privately-run site we came across in our research that’s attempting to centralize data on funding opportunities, but its focus is on the non-profit sector, which excludes many startups.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

For years there has been a pervasive opinion across the entrepreneurial landscape that the US has a shortage of capital required to startup and grow new ventures. Dr. Carl Schramm, Kauffman CEO , recently said that startup formation is stagnant or even decreasing in the US in the second half of 2011.

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2014

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, for example, is one of the most lucrative sources of federal grants for high-tech startups or high-growth firms (more on SBIR below). SBIR grants for R&D businesses. SBIR is a federal program, overseen by the U.S.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2020

I’m proud to say that I see the Austin community and the startup community doing the latter. Epic Office Hours, Open Coffee, Robot University, AMA’s… even the Startup Crawl. Many businesses will fail but many new ones will be created. Will you call it quits or will you rise to the challenge? Grab yours before they are all gone!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups. That is time and resource that you must add to the million other high-priority startup tasks. Processing and approvals take time. Violations can lead to jail time.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

New startups/companies rarely break into the system. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. And incremental improvements in weapons typically result in incremental improvements in doctrine. And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

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David Cohen

MARCH 13, 2019

It’s so nice to see when government organizations figure out how to effective engage with startups, and then scale it! AFWERX has a program called SBIR , which is a way that startups can work with the US Air Force with little or no hassles. And, here’s the page you care about if you’re a startup.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. All the usual caveats apply.

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Gust

MAY 11, 2014

A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups. That is time and resource that you must add to the million other high-priority startup tasks. Invested Interests entrepreneur grants startup' Processing and approvals take time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2011

Now that President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package has been out for a while, including $50 billion aimed at alternative-energy initiatives, applying for grants has become the rage for high-tech startups. I applaud the initiative, and encourage startups in this direction, but there are costs. Processing and approvals take time.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The Howdy Austin mural commissioned by Ride|Austin Here is your home page to get started and meet all of the people you need to know to plug into the Austin tech startup scene?—?the Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston. STOIKY is his callsign.

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ithacaVC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Apart from SBIR/STIR grants (which often literally are used to start companies based on university research), my general view is that startups should NOT overly rely on the government for anything. That can be tough for a startup! As a strategy, it is just too risky and unpredictable.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

New startups/companies rarely break into the system. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. And incremental improvements in weapons typically result in incremental improvements in doctrine. And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. All the usual caveats apply.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. The goal is help these companies take their tech. …It

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2012

I founded MoveableCode back in 2009, initially to do some mobile Augmented Reality research on a National Science Foundation SBIR grant. About five years and a couple of startups ago, I mercilessly tracked him down and he was good enough to meet and hear the pitch for the startup I was with at the time. There is no try.”

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2011

This law will increase the SBA budget for awards to business via the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs over the next 5 years. Related posts: Small business and startup issues: paperwork galore. Small business and startup issues: net neutrality and H.R. photo: Erin Kinney.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. And what hurdles could be eliminated?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I pointed out that this program wouldn’t need more funds since the Department of Defense could allocate 10% of the $428M we were spending on auditors and fund SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) programs in auditing/data management/finance to generate 5-10 new startups in this space each year. The Road Not Taken.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

(There are three existing sources for funding defense innovation: COTS/GOTS validation (testing whether off-the-shelf products can be used); Concept Validation and Technology Advancement ; and SBIR/STTR funds – there’s over >$1B per year in the DoD SBIR program alone.).

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

But as I tried to find my own path in this, it became clear that there are MANY resources for small startups in Ann Arbor, and today throughout Michigan. I got helped with talent search, boot camp for small startups, microloan…the list goes on and on. So far we have received a Phase 1 (from DoD) and Phase 2 (from NSF).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2014

With that SBIR-Phase 1 funding the teams were trying to establish the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of their technology. This direct interaction with potential users and customers is essential to commercialize science (whether to license the technology or launch a startup.) Like a startup it’s relentless.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

And a disapproval or delayed clearance can put a startup out of business. This sensor has been the graveyard of tons of startups that have crashed and burned pursuing this. Much like the NIH SBIR program.) This is a continual trade-off between patient safety, good enough data and decision making, and complete clinical proof.

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