My mom runs an sbir funded company and it has really worked out well for her. It takes a while to get up to speed as a business - you start out writing phase 1

My mom runs an sbir funded company and it has really worked out well for her. It takes a while to get up to speed as a business - you start out writing phase 1 proposals that will give you 100K for a project, and you might get funded ten percent of the time. But once you have the phase 1, you have maybe a one in two shot of making it to a phase 2 grant, which is funded at a much higher rate. But keep in mind that you would be doing government contracting, and there are a lot of hoops that you have to go through, like doing accounting the government way, filing out reports and the like. So it is a big undertaking. Anyway, you can drop me a line if you want to know more. And my mom is always looking for collaboraters, but her focus is in x-ray and neutron detectors...