SBIR success stories are few and far between. We have pissed away hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars and gotten no return.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
All of that money could have been used to actually protect our digital infrastructure. Instead it's in white dudes' second homes.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
SBIR is what Congress did after the Beltway Bandits consolidated and cut their R&D spending to 4%.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @EmilyGorcenski
It is basically a supplementary R&D budget for these huge, profitable for-profit companies. Which is vacuumed up in predictable ways.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @EmilyGorcenski
In the rare case that an innovative company stumbles into one the only viable exit strategy is to sell to a Bandit.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @EmilyGorcenski
Because the DoD Does Not Buy Technology From Startups. No. So you have to sell to a Bandit for a pittance.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @EmilyGorcenski
Which means the only real players going after an SBIR are either amateurs, connected, or professional scammers.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @EmilyGorcenski
Anyway maybe this is all well known to you. It was eye opening and sad to me.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
I was unwittingly a professional scammer for my early career. Exiting was the best thing I ever did.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @matthew_d_green
It was a great way to funnel money to professors at $300/hr and get almost nothing in return. I have stories.
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Profs using university facilities but writing the contract as their personal LLC. Grad students doing free work, billing to the charge #.
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