Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2020

Capital Factory community members won awards from: Air Force Army Navy Special Operations Defense Innovation Unit NSF NASA Department of Energy DARPA Intelligence Community Programs and contract vehicles included SBIR, OTAs, AFWERX challenges, AAL’s Capabilities Accelerator, xTech Search, and even a few subcontracts. application cycle!

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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. Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk.

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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. Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. The market was created to provide startups and their investors liquidity. China’s venture capital system has made a remarkable journey from the “state owns everything” to the free market. Like the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Every business needs to adapt to emerging market trends, and your health startup is no exception to this rule. In fact, startups have to stay one step ahead of the changing market conditions. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry is one of the most complicated, with tons of health regulations, licenses, rules, and marketing gimmicks.

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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. Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk.

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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. You need to enhance your business plan and marketing with all the benefits to your customers of the multiple “stimulus” plans and tax breaks now being put together, especially related to alternative energy products.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Several sources (including Startup by Elizabeth Edwards ) estimate that $2-3 billion per year is awarded to very early stage companies by federal government grants (mostly SBIRs). At $100,000 or so per grant, perhaps 2-3000 pre-seed and seed/startup companies receive SBIRs and other government grants per year.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. The market was created to provide startups and their investors liquidity. China’s venture capital system has made a remarkable journey from the “state owns everything” to the free market. Like the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2020

Capital Factory was started in 2009 right after the 2008 housing market crash and the last recession. We need entrepreneurs. This is an incredibly challenging time. But this is when entrepreneurs are at their best. There was nowhere to go but up. Many businesses will fail but many new ones will be created.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Innofund is designed to bridge early stage technology companies that have innovative technology and good market potential but are too early for commercial funding (banks or VCs.) The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S. Venture Guiding Fund.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Innofund is designed to bridge early stage technology companies that have innovative technology and good market potential but are too early for commercial funding (banks or VCs.) The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S. Venture Guiding Fund.

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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. Beyond the SBIR: Non-Dilutive Funding for Your Startup.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JULY 14, 2010

It is as if the authors trust government more than markets. Step 11: Revamp the SBIR." We don't need government to be the market middle man. And their recommendation to reform immigration laws to encourage entrepreneurs to come here, or in many cases, stay here is something I have argued for a long time. Just scrap it entirely.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

Finding a gap in the market can turn an idea into an amazing step for a potential business. Once he understood how well this device protected teeth, we discussed the possibility of bringing something like this to the sports market. Entrepreneurs are continuously discovering that if you find a place, you can create a company.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets. Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. We added a new category, Horizon 0, which refers to graveyard ideas that are not viable or feasible.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2014

With that SBIR-Phase 1 funding the teams were trying to establish the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of their technology. And of course none of this would be possible without the tremendous and enthusiastic support and encouragement of Michael Weingarten the director of the NIH/NCI SBIR program and his team.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Large tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple recognize that the multi- trillion dollar health care market is ripe for disruption and have poured billions of dollars into the space. Much like the NIH SBIR program.) Healthcare on Your Wrist. Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring. The Future.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 19, 2020

– This could be primarily accomplished by steering New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) incentives toward investment in public health facilities in underserved areas. Expand the Existing SBIR Programs. – Rapidly execute new SBIR awards. This initiative was later written into Congressional appropriations.

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