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

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. New startups/companies rarely break into the system. Slides 35-37. Unlike incremental technology improvements. Slides 47 and 52.

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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. New startups/companies rarely break into the system. Slides 35-37. Unlike incremental technology improvements. Slides 47 and 52.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

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. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Requires Columbia affiliation.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

She’s currently Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors , and former Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a bipartisan national security think tank. It’s a great question, and it points to this question of leadership. — On China.

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