article thumbnail

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while being challenged to solve some of the toughest problems.”. The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.)

Lean 417
article thumbnail

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Team Protocol One – Ensuring JTAC to Pilot Communication. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

Oakland 315
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

Much like the NIH SBIR program.) They need to step up their game – money, software, people – with the medical research community. Apple needs to act more proactively and directly fund some of these projects with grants to specific principal investigators and build a program of sc ale. The Future.

China 67
article thumbnail

Government Grants for Small Business Startups: Finding and Applying for Them

Board Effect

Two notable federal grant programs are the Small Business Innovation Research grant program (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR). Twelve federal agencies offer SBIR and STTR grants including: NASA. The grant awards for the STTR program are similar to the SBIR program. National Science Foundation.

article thumbnail

Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Summit Fellows.

article thumbnail

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? 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. There are and we do.

DC 90
article thumbnail

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) Team: Learn2Win.

Oakland 281