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. Money has always been tight for high-tech entrepreneurs who need to raise capital from investors willing to gamble on a new idea. Marty Zwilling.

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David Cohen

MARCH 13, 2019

AFWERX has a program called SBIR , which is a way that startups can work with the US Air Force with little or no hassles. But I noticed only a handful of my friends in the venture capital industry showed up, which baffled me. ” The most interesting companies end up at Air Force Pitch Day. Wow, I was blown away.

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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. Money has always been tight for high-tech entrepreneurs who need to raise capital from investors willing to gamble on a new idea. Marty Zwilling.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Let’s take a closer look at trends in government grants, angel investment and venture capital financings. 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).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Most Venture Capitalists in China viewed the Innofund the same way most U.S. VC’s treat the SBIR and STTR programs – they never heard of it, or they think it takes too much time to apply for too little money. Venture Guiding Fund. Seed Funding (Innofund). Lessons Learned.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

However, you can certainly raise some of the capital through bootstrapping and the rest via seed funding. Venture capital, angel investors, and equity investment platforms (crowdfunding) seem to be the most popular options in the healthcare industry.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Most Venture Capitalists in China viewed the Innofund the same way most U.S. VC’s treat the SBIR and STTR programs – they never heard of it, or they think it takes too much time to apply for too little money. Venture Guiding Fund. Seed Funding (Innofund). Lessons Learned.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

David Teten

AUGUST 8, 2011

Despite the fact that the grant community looks impossibly messy for a startup to navigate, a good starting place is Grants.gov , where you can find a fairly comprehensive directory of federal grants (especially SBIR-related solicitations), searchable by keyword/agency/funding-type/date.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. STOIKY is his callsign.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Other traditional options for non-dilutive financing include grants, loans, SBIR, STTR, vouchers, tax credits, etc: Wonder’s Overview of Non-Dilutive Funding. Is Venture Capital Right for Social Ventures? *

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Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He wanted to build an innovation pipeline that would allow the Navy to: Create “dual-use” products (build solutions that could be used for the military but also sold commercially, and attract venture capital investments.) Dual-use” products reduce the cost for defense adoption of products.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation. private investors spent $300 billion last year to fund new ventures that can move with the speed and urgency that the DoD now requires. In the U.S.,

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