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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. The class is team based.

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

Steve Blank

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. 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. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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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

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. 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. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit

Steve Blank

What if we could provide the defense department with new technology, new approaches to auditing, analytics practices, audit research, and standards, all while creating audit and data management research and a new generation of finance applications and vendors? challenges in finance, auditing and data management. The Road Not Taken.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

Other traditional options for non-dilutive financing include grants, loans, SBIR, STTR, vouchers, tax credits, etc: Wonder’s Overview of Non-Dilutive Funding. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know. Beyond the SBIR: Non-Dilutive Funding for Your Startup.

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Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, contracting, policy, and finance support. — but the other “gotchas” that innovators always seem to forget.

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