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Planning to submit? What you should be doing NOW!
I often get calls from clients who wish to submit an SBIR/STTR grant with a deadline only a couple of weeks or even days away.
Show me the money! The Importance of Budget Preparation.
After spending months planning your experiments and detailing your approach, you are now ready for the budget.
Make beginning a 1st draft less daunting with these simple steps
Don’t know where to start?? Follow our guide to building the first draft of your SBIR proposal.
Is SBIR/STTR a Fit for Me? Take the T.E.S.T
Is SBIR/STTR a Fit for Me? Take the T.E.S.T Here is a simple test with some Go – No Go criteria to see if SBIR/STTR is a fit for your company.
Let’s Talk Significance!
Your SBIR proposal must communicate strong significance, but many proposals I review fall short in this area.
Startup Serendipity and Strategy: Laura Gomez
Atipica‘s Laura Gomez talks Startup Serendipity and Strategy: Seizing Opportunities, Navigating Troubles.
Addressing reviewer comments in resubmissions
So you have submitted your SBIR proposal some months ago and are nervously waiting for word on what the reviewers thought of it.
Perfecting Your Pitch to Program Managers
One of the most common themes we try to impress on our clients is for them to reach out to the various program managers well before they submit a proposal.
Why consider USDA in your SBIR pursuits?
Often our clients think primarily about NSF or NIH as a source for SBIR funding.