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Applicant or Awardee:
What type of professional expertise do YOU need? |
| They may be already listed here OR we can help track down someone with the right skill set and relevant experience. |
Professional Service provider:
Are your skills of value to SBIR-STTR involved firms? |
| As the only searchable, cross-agency database of every SBIR-STTR awards and all awardees that is entirely current, this site is a leading destination for |
| those seeking accurate information about SBIR-STTR involved firms - individually and/or collectively andthose wishing to do business with this important population of technology- competent small firms. |
| If you are an experienced, quality Professional Service provider interested in becoming better known to the SBIR-STTR community, this could be a useful place to be listed. |
| Site Posting Options: types and rates |
| Please add us to these listings |
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| SBIR-STTR Participation Statistics: |
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almost 16,184 firms have been in receipt of SBIR-STTR funding now approaching $17 Billion |
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the overwhelming percentage are still in business -- with 7000+ still program active |
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at least 1000 SBIR-STTR awardees have raised venture capital; over 500 have achieved public offering; with another 800+ having been M&A involved - see Show me the Money |
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- delivering on their contracts
- pushing out the bounds of technology
- raising money and running their firms
- hiring people and consulting experts
- protecting their technologies (or not)
- licensing their intellectual assets
- building alliances and striking deals
... buying the range of goods and services that enable all that to happen. |
Building the Team
That SBIR-STTR awardees are good at what they do is the 'given' of effective program participation. Mediocrity or the half-thought through idea will not pass muster for long. However, it is clear that to do well, technology competency is not enough. Those who excel in SBIR-STTR - not only in terms of number of awards, the extent and form of Phase II (and III) conversion
- but how they use the program and
- with what type of business impact their program involvement may have
almost invariably report having used, as appropriate, quality expertise and other resources recruited from outside the ranks of the firm. These management realized the limits of their own experiences and expertise --- and have had the sense early to identify and bring onto their team, those with well-honed skills relevant to the tasks in hand.
The problem:
Even in well-endowed states, those with a substantial population of small, high-tech firms - Massachusetts, California , Virginia etc - it is not easy- first to make judgement about the types of expertise and experience needed AND
- even more critically, then to know how to evaluate the competencies of the available choices.
This is not a simply a look-it-up-on-the-internet issue. In those areas of the country less active in the program often with no tradition of supporting small high-tech firms, these problems of recruitment of professional expertise are seriously compounded. There simply may not be in close proximity the experience they need. Effective use of this site may be a useful factor
in addressing these problems
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