Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "@Jonathan_Blow @AcqTalk I came to a similar conclusion earlier this year. It’s more than a bit dispiriting looking at the awardees list." / Twitter

Let's assume Orin's estimate is true, and let's value an hour of time at $100. That means the average SBIR award costs $160,000 to win. Likely benefits: $50,000 for a Phase I and $750,000 to $1.5M for Phase II.

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EdgeworthBox, Inc.

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· Sep 12, 2020

"To clarify the math, if it takes two man-months (~320 hours) to prepare a SBIR proposal, and you have a 20 percent chance of getting the award, that’s an average of 10 man-months per award." ow.ly/S3Cq50Bp1J3 via @AcqTalk

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I came to a similar conclusion earlier this year. It’s more than a bit dispiriting looking at the awardees list.

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José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente

@ArtirKel

Sep 12, 2020

Anecdotically, a friend once worked for a company whose R&D department (where he was) was to a some extent coming up with bogus proposals just to get similar grants. (In Spain though).

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