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“This funding allowed us to pursue several innovative programs that otherwise would not have been possible” - Irwin Jacobs, founder of Qualcomm in testimony to
by smeeth 6y ago
“This funding allowed us to pursue several innovative programs that otherwise would not have been possible” - Irwin Jacobs, founder of Qualcomm in testimony to the US senate.
The government is good at a lot of things, it is NOT good at publicizing it’s own success. Just because you don’t know about it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
- di4na 6y agoQualcomm is also nowhere near a startup or a fledgling SMB
- smeeth 6y agoThey were in 1987 when SBIR gave them their first grant [0]. That's sort of the point, parent comment asked for an example of a company that exited with SBIR help, and I gave him a wildly successful one. [0] https://www.sbir.gov/node/285190 https://www.sbir.gov/node/285190
- sushshshsh 6y agoThat is a very interesting example. Thank you for providing it.