Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

There’s something wrong when the cost of entry of Palantir , SpaceX and Anduril as new DOD contractors required billionaire founders.) All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. And because of the complexity of the DOD requirements and acquisition system, the incumbent contractors are typically the same.

Technology 436

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

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. But before you conclude that your funding problems are solved with grants, you should consider the direct and indirect costs of grant funding: Grant applications are bureaucratic.

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Seed Money SBIR Dilution Government 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2011

I applaud the initiative, and encourage startups in this direction, but there are costs. A good place to start is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups. Professional help costs money.

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Government SBIR Dilution Database 221

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

There’s something wrong when the cost of entry of Palantir , SpaceX and Anduril as new DOD contractors required billionaire founders.) All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. And because of the complexity of the DOD requirements and acquisition system, the incumbent contractors are typically the same.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

For example, having flexible work hours means you can hire talented candidates from different time zones, which will increase your productivity while keeping the costs down. SBIR often offers grants to projects that are deemed risky by the VCs or equity investors. Have a comprehensive growth strategy.

SBIR 73

SBIR Startup Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property 73

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

government’s SBIR and STTR programs. VC’s treat the SBIR and STTR programs – they never heard of it, or they think it takes too much time to apply for too little money. Some of the startups coming out of these incubators have become large international companies including Lenovo, Huawai, Suntech Power, etc. Seed Funding (Innofund).

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

With audit costs approaching a billion dollars a year the Pentagon had an opportunity to lead in modernizing auditing. In 2019, the audit cost $428 million in auditing costs ($186 million to the auditors along with $242 million to audit support) and another $472 million to fix the issues the audit discovered.

Advisory Board 328

Advisory Board Artificial Inteligence SBIR Government 328

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

government’s SBIR and STTR programs. VC’s treat the SBIR and STTR programs – they never heard of it, or they think it takes too much time to apply for too little money. Some of the startups coming out of these incubators have become large international companies including Lenovo, Huawai, Suntech Power, etc. Seed Funding (Innofund).

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dual-use” products reduce the cost for defense adoption of products. 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

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. In addition we have a fantastic marketing team and a sales team that are successfully plugging away every day, many many hours. We were in the black already after 2 years!

Advisory Board 48

Advisory Board Michigan SBIR Revenue 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

That is just currently a full personal money sucking process, as you're taxed on income and have no business breaks yet, besides supplies, the majority of costs to start up a business have no tax advantages to creating a start up. Biggest thing for me not on your list is more tax advantages to starting up a company self-funded.

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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 will save Haro tens of millions of dollars in development cost. Many will apply for a Phase II grant of up to $1 million to continue their R&D efforts. See slides 12 and 13.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Thanks to organizations like DIU we’ve gotten much better at tech scouting; finding promising technologies that might have a military application, getting them on that initial contract – on a SBIR contract or an OTA prototyping contract. Rather just rewarding this rigorous, we only care about cost and schedule.

Technology 300

Technology China United States Government 300

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Mastering the reimbursement path requires a company to have yet another group of specialists conduct expensive clinical cost outcomes studies. After running cost outcome studies, insurers believe that preventative measures like staying fit brings down their overall expense for a variety of conditions. Much like the NIH SBIR program.)

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China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The Ukraine conflict is demonstrating the changing character of war such that low-cost emerging commercial technology is extremely effective when deployed against a larger 20th-century industrialized force that Russia is fielding. Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation.

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