SBIR Workshop: Funding Your Innovations with Government Money

On Saturday, October 24, 2009, attendees of this limited space event heard about winning Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards. This highly interactive seminar discussed how to write winning proposals and how to deal with “registration” with the Government’s on line sites and the various required codes, numbers, and identifiers. Attendees learned what is involved in running an SBIR contract or grant and the significant benefits that an award brings to the winning firm. These include “sole source” treatment in certain Federal contracting situations, retention of “data rights,” including software by the firm, and ownership of principal worldwide rights to intellectual property. We will likely repeat this event in the near future. Here are the slides for the workshop.

Startups and Funding Panel – BizSpark Event

For those who could not make it to the September Event of MIT enterprise forum DFW chapter, here’s the first of a series of videos from the investor panel of the BizSpark program. Panelists, from left to right, are Brad Taylor from AUSUM, Brian Gorbett, part of the Microsoft Biz Spark team, Brent Sorrells, Operations Manager for TECH Fort Worth and Eric Engineer a Senior Associate wtih Sevin Rosen Funds. The panelists field questions about funding startups with angel investors and venture capital.

Here’s the complete video – about 35 minutes.

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