Kickstarting Startups with SBIRs

I had the following upcoming event forwarded to me today. I used to go to MIT Enterprise Forum events quite frequently when I lived in Providence. Best of all, as I’m a starving student, it’s only $10:

The MIT Enterprise Forum in Colorado is hosting another patent pending Dual-Panel discussion NEXT WEDS, June 4, 5-7:30p at the Wolf Law Center at CU-Boulder.

TOPIC: “Kickstarting Your Startup with SBIRs and Gov’t Funding”
Format: Live panel from Cambridge by Satellite & Live (flesh) Panel in Boulder

Date: Weds, June 4, 2008
Time: 5:00-7:30pm, Doors open at 4:30
Location: Room 207, Wolf Law Building, CU-Boulder, 2450 Kittredge Loop Rd, Boulder

Cost: $25 General, $20 Affiliate groups (BIC, CTEK, CSIA, etc), $15 MIT Alum Club,
Special: $10 Starving Entrepreneurs, CU/DU/CSU Students

Register: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/Register.dyn?eventID=23761&groupID=148

Many people think you have to have a new idea for modern methods of mass destruction in order to get an SBIR or government grant, but there are thousands of topics in healthcare, bioscience, materials science, alternative energy, software, etc etc etc available for those in the know.

Which is precisely the purpose of our MIT Forum next week.: to get you in the know! Many companies have been successfully started with $100K to $1M kickstarts from SBIRs… without giving up any equity.

Our Forum will feature the Program Director for SBIRs from the National Science Foundation by live satellite feed from Cambridge. AND… we’ll have a GREAT live local panel consisting of one of the nation’s leading SBIR mentors and sonsultants. AND… you’ll meet a pair of local CEO’s that have started their companies with Gov’t grants and successfully commercialized the IP and were even acquired.

Objectives
You’ll learn about the myriad of gov’t grants available form multiple sponsoring organizations. You’ll learn how to find these opportunities, improve your chances of winning them, and how to transition to commercial success.