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Press Releases


News Story on SBIR and the Stimulus Exclusion

On February 25, 2009, a story was released to the web-media on the exclusion of SBIR from the NIH's Stimulus funding for additional R&D.  Folded into the story was a discussion of gauging the benefit of SBIR via ROIC.

See the Press Release at PR-Web: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2183614.htm


Arlington Business Coach Appointment

I closed a major consulting contract with the Center for Innovation at Arlington (Texas) in early 2009.  Under my Commercialization Funding Coach company banner (the SBIR Coach is actually a dba of that company), work will be done with a unique public/private joint venture of the University of Texas at Arlington's Office of Technology Management (via an intiative they're calling the Venture Innovation Partnership), and the Arlington Chamber of Commerce managed Arlington Technology Incubator. 

Business Coach Press Release.pdf

NASVF Announces intent to form a National Seed Fund of Funds

This press release cites a new survey on very realy stage investing and announces the intent of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF), together with an innovation internediary, Innovation America, to creat a National Innovation Seed Fund of Funds (NISF) to help overcome the lack of growth funding needed by entrepreneurial companies to be able to move to the next stage of growth - typically immediately after fininishing SBIR projects.  (Note: Fred Patterson is a member of NASVF, and serves on its Public Policy Commitee that will be helping guide the creation of the NISF.)

NASVF-Survey-Reveals-Need-for-National-Seed-Fund-PR-6APR09.pdf
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