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

All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. Time will tell whether the existing acquisition bureaucracy beats this down or if it truly can sustain a breakout from traditional contracting and gets embraced by visionary leadership.) And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. Time will tell whether the existing acquisition bureaucracy beats this down or if it truly can sustain a breakout from traditional contracting and gets embraced by visionary leadership.) And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Besides experience, they will also need to have a combination of leadership , communication, and presentation skills, plus financial and technical knowledge. SBIR often offers grants to projects that are deemed risky by the VCs or equity investors. Know thy customer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The experience taught me a valuable lesson about innovation and imagination in large organizations, and the difference visionary leadership – or the lack of it – can make. But that requires a different charter, leadership, people, innovation, and imagination. Instead it opted for more of the same.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation identifies entrepreneurs that display characteristics of “exceptional social leadership through discretion, influence, vision, ambition, intelligence, and follow-through.”. Beyond the SBIR: Non-Dilutive Funding for Your Startup. National Economic Impacts from the DOD SBIR/STTR Program.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2011

This law will increase the SBA budget for awards to business via the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs over the next 5 years. 448: Small Business Innovation Enhancement Act of 2011(Introduced 1/26/2011).

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