Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. And our course advisor – Tom Byers , Professor of Engineering and Faculty Director, STVP.

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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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SBIR Maryland Lean Seed Stage 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. 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 436

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

Reorganize DoD Research and Engineering to allocate its budget and resources equally between traditional sources of innovation and new commercial sources of innovation. Make it permanent by creating an innovation doctrine/policy. that are not the traditional vendors. (One This should be one of many such contracts and not an isolated example.)

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Ukraine China Private Equity Russia 277

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. And our course advisor – Tom Byers , Professor of Engineering and Faculty Director, STVP. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation in 2012 to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.)

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Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 163

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. Read about all the class sessions here. And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

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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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Javier : … the entrepreneurial engine of the United States is bar none the most efficient wealth creation and job creation tool that has ever existed. … . ” Two of the entrepreneurial programs, which I managed is called the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

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Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

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. Triv was an engineer at a company I worked for when I first came to the US as a product manager. First – an overview on what I’m working on now. He used to be a client of mine.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks , Considering Military Culture and Values When Adopting AI, Swarms of Mass Destruction , Joby Aviation raises $590 million led by Toyota to launch an electric air taxi service , Linking combat veterans and Valley engineers.

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Technology China United States Government 300

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, contracting, policy, and finance support.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

We also have a scientific team, consisting of three chemical engineers in addition to Jan, who is the founder and the inventor. 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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