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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

The National Cancer Institute SBIR Development Center , is leading the pilot, with participation from the SBIR & STTR Programs at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute , the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke , and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

While the Innovation Clusters designated specific areas of the countries where high tech was to occur, it’s the Technology Business incubators located inside these clusters where the startup companies physically reside. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Evidence-based Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

Both of these groups, those who took the Innovation Corps class and those who didn’t, applied for government peer-reviewed funding through the SBIR program. The teams that skipped the class and pursued traditional methods of starting a company had an 18% success rate in receiving SBIR Phase I funding.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

While the Innovation Clusters designated specific areas of the countries where high tech was to occur, it’s the Technology Business incubators located inside these clusters where the startup companies physically reside. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

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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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Being designated as a Torch Program startup gave banks comfort to provide loans to these ventures for technology commercialization. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries. Presentation Format. Team: Panacea.

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