Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Thus founders seeking funding for a good cause or a new technology often seize on grants from universities, government agencies and philanthropic organizations as free money to solve their problems. Every technology advance has the potential to help people in the medical, environmental or cultural sense. Technology is not enough.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Second, this class – which is built on the idea of interviewing customers/beneficiaries and stakeholders in person – now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? At first this seemed to be a fatal stake through the heart of the class.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Over the last three years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 700 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how to fail less, increasing their odds for commercial success. 110 researchers and clinicians, and Principal Investigators got out of the lab and hospital, and talked to 2,355 customers.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2020

There were a lot of individual examples of companies in our community who had incredible success in finding DoD customers, and these projects were changing the direction of their products and companies. Our next SBIR Accelerator kicks off with the 20.3 As we closed out 2019, we knew the numbers would beat our goal. application cycle!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. 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. Like the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch.

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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. In today’s fast moving technology world, that may give your competitor the edge, or your startup may wither and die waiting. Professional help costs money. Research related tax credits and incentives.

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Seed Money SBIR Dilution Government 242

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding.

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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. In today’s fast moving technology world, that may give your competitor the edge, or your startup may wither and die waiting. Professional help costs money. Research related tax credits and incentives.

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Government Equity Cost SBIR 230

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. 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. Like the U.S.

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

It is one of the first few industries to embrace digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, mHealth, wearables, telehealth, and robotics. As the healthcare industry continues to adopt digital technology, the number of healthcare startups is also growing. Know thy customer. Image via CBInsights.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. In many cases I look at an SBIR and say "how about I just build that and sell it to you when it's done," but that is unrealistic today.

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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. In today’s fast moving technology world, that may give your competitor the edge, or your startup may wither and die waiting. Professional help costs money. Research related tax credits and incentives.

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Seed Money SBIR Dilution Government 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2011

A good place to start is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups. In today’s fast moving technology world, that may give your competitor the edge, or your startup may wither and die waiting. Professional help costs money. Research related tax credits and incentives.

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Government SBIR Dilution Database 221

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

” Two of the entrepreneurial programs, which I managed is called the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. So essentially, the government invests in both (research), and (development).”

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

Can you tell is why you started Akervall Technologies and a little about your business background? We proud ourselves of being a company on the cutting edge of technology. 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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

set up the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) to use thousands of civilian scientists in universities to build advanced technology weapons (radar, rockets, sonar, electronic warfare, nuclear weapons.) Test if the Lean Innovation process actually accelerates technology adoption and an innovation ecosystem.

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