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SBIR Advance
March 6, 2023
Top 5 Missteps for New Lean Startup Practitioners
Lean Startup can focus your efforts towards the most immediate, critical goals for your business.
March 28, 2022
COnovate secures financing to accelerate and scale
Congratulations to COnovate — a CTC client, SBIR Advance awardee and 2020 Wisconsin Innovation Award winner — upon securing key SAFE financing from a remarkable partnership led by Tundra Angels, Wisconsin Venture Partners and Jennifer Abele.
October 16, 2020
COnovate (formerly SafeLi) Named Wisconsin Innovation Award Winner
Congratulations to SafeLi — a CTC client, and SBIR Advance awardee, for receiving a 2020 Wisconsin Innovation Award SafeLi, based in Shorewood, discovered Graphene Monoxide, a nano-material that may enable enhanced safety for the use of lithium-ion batteries.
July 16, 2020
A Bridge to Commercial Success- SBIR Phase IIB
Almost all of the big commercial successes from the National Science Foundation SBIR/STTR program have been companies that received Phase IIB awards, according to Ben Schrag, Senior Program Director of SBIR/STTR at NSF.
June 8, 2020
Plumb Pharma wins 2020 Governor’s Business Plan Contest
Congratulations to Plumb Pharma — CTC client and SBIR Advance awardee — on winning the 2020 Governor’s Business Plan Contest! Plumb Pharma of Madison has developed a platform technology for super-extended-release medications that extends release 3-5 times longer than current medications.
June 5, 2020
SeedLinked obtains critical funding
Congratulations to SeedLinked — a CTC client, SBIR Advance awardee and 2019 Governor’s Business Plan Contest “Bright New Idea” winner — upon receiving a critical investment from TitletownTech, a $25 million venture fund led by Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers.
February 3, 2020
The 5 Min Interview- What Did I Just Hear?
Learn more about CTC’s Lean Startup program, Ideadvance, and how we will pay you to do customer discovery! If you haven’t read the first post in this series, The 5 Min Interview- the 30 min plan, go back and check it out.
January 17, 2020
The 5 Min Interview- The Power of “Why?”
Learn more about CTC’s Lean Startup program, Ideadvance, and how we will pay you to do customer discovery! If you haven’t read the first post in this series, The 5 Min Interview- the 30 min plan, go back and check it out.
January 5, 2020
The 5 Min Interview- The 30 Min Plan
Learn more about CTC’s Lean Startup program, Ideadvance, and how we will pay you to do customer discovery! Customer interviews have an air of formality that often conjures images that feels more like an interrogation vs investigation.