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Ben Van Roo (@DavidNorthStar) co-founder and CEO of Yurts AI joins Lucas Bagno on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways:

- The Small Business Innovation Research program was originally developed as a grant program to allow small companies do innovative research. The gene for cystic fibrosis was discovered from the program.

- If you’re a small company and you get an SBIR contract you should not count on getting a government contract.

- It has been very difficult for software companies to get

A Deep Dive on SBIRs with Ben Van Roo

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