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I-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine

Steve Blank

If you’ve received this post in an email the embedded videos and powerpoint are best viewed on www.steveblank.com. With that SBIR-Phase 1 funding the teams were trying to establish the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of their technology. This has been of tremendous value to us. Lessons Learned.

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Air Force Pitch Day was awesome

David Cohen

AFWERX has a program called SBIR , which is a way that startups can work with the US Air Force with little or no hassles. You can also just email them to learn more. In a nutshell, barriers to working with the Air Force have been “mitigated” ( blown up sir! They mean you! You can get $50k initially and up to $3M over time.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

If I can help make a mutually beneficial introduction I’d like to… please think about why THEY would want to meet YOU and send me a forwardable email at josh@quityourjob.com. You can find a great example email in my post about How to Make Effective Email Introductions. The Connectors Alex “STOIKY” Goldberg ( Lt.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

I'll add one more point: The SBIR program is based on a dated notion of small business research, and the multi-year process doesn't line up with the speed of many modern startups. 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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Coronavirus: An open letter to the Austin Startup Community

Austin Startup

Please leave a comment and let us know or email me at josh@quityourjob.com. Please leave a comment and let us know or email me at josh@quityourjob.com. If a member of our community has the virus or has been exposed to it, we want to know about it and we want to help. We might know about resources you don’t.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

” Two of the entrepreneurial programs, which I managed is called the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Send an email to terri@kandsranch.com describing your entrepreneurial journey. So essentially, the government invests in both (research), and (development).”