Alaska Small Business Development Center
The Alaska SBDC provides a mix of self-serve resources and client services.
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The State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) is a federally-funded program intended to attract lenders & investors to help with funding businesses that can’t get conventional business loans from banks & lending institutions.
The AK SBDC is the administrative lead on the program for Alaska, and will deploy the funding to lenders and investment funds.
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The SBIR/STTR federal programs provide non-dilutive funding to support ideation and commercialization of groundbreaking technologies and are invaluable to small business development. At the same time SBIR/STTR is also highly competitive and successful preparation and submission of proposals may be very challenging for inventors who have no previous SBIR/STTR experience. Participation in the SBIR/STTR programs requires the paradigm shift: inventors should be able to demonstrate not only their superior technical and scientific skills but also be able to think like business people and demonstrate that their R&D efforts may result in the development of successful commercial products.
In this 45-minute recorded webinar, Foresight Science & Technology Senior Consultant Kris Parmelee provides a detailed rundown of common weaknesses of SBIR/STTR proposals. Potential pitfalls include:
The webinar will be very useful not only for SBIR/STTR newbies but also for inventors with previous SBIR/STTR experience who want to improve the efficiency of their application submission. This webinar covers multiple topics and offers suggestions which will undoubtedly strengthen your future proposals.
Presenter: Kris Parmelee, Foresight Science & Technology Senior Consultant
The link above will take you to our client portal, where you will be able to register for access to this training video.