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SBIRs are like crack. It's easy money, but then you get on a government delivery cycle and standards. I wouldn't touch them at a startup.
by ivankirigin 17y ago
SBIRs are like crack. It's easy money, but then you get on a government delivery cycle and standards.
I wouldn't touch them at a startup.
- calcnerd256 17y agoThe company for which I work is currently in a situation where we make most of our money from SBIRs. Any suggestions for breaking out of that cycle?
- ivankirigin 17y agoPut all your resources into either selling something to someone besides the government, or making something you can sell. IRobot can sell their military robots to people like the police, and the roomba side of course. The alternative is going whole hog and getting more money from congress outside the sbir process. Then you're a defense contractor.
- calcnerd256 17y agoI suppose an update to that story is in order. We didn't get some big IT contract we needed and so we let a couple of our employees go. I was one of the two.