Get high-quality proposal support without breaking the bank

Watch the weekly videos, complete the workbooks, and come to the weekly webinar to create winning proposal building blocks and strategy

Then bring it all together at our two day proposal Hackathon and leave with a Complete, Compelling and Competitive proposal

Next Cohort: Due to uncertainty around congressional reauthorization we are pausing the next cohort launch date, but please join the waitlist to save your place in line

Limits: To ensure we can give top quality support to participants Cohorts are limited to 20 people

Curriculum: The weekly agenda is:

Week 1: Self Evaluation And Program Basics (free) 

• Introduction To Federal Funding

• Is Federal Funding Right For You (Self Evaluation)?

• Is The Government Likely To Fund Your Tech?

• Do You Qualify for Federal Funding?

• The Key Differences Between Federal Funding And VC

Week 2:Setup Funding Alerts & Market Intelligence: Government

• Building Your Search automation

• Why you need to do funder research

• Research likely funders and understand their priorities

• Identify key individuals at those funders

• Develop an Engagement strategy

Week 3: Market Intelligence: Companies

• Why you need to do partner research

• Research likely funding partners and understand their priorities

• Identify individuals at those partners

• Map potential university partners and decision makers

• Develop an Engagement strategy

Week 4: Develop Marketing Material

• Why do you need marketing materials

• A Product Quad Chart

• A company Capabilities Statement

• Draft customer outreach Emails

• White Paper For Funding Topic Suggestion

Week 5: Funding & Proposal Process : Familization with:

• The Funding Solicitation (SBIR Topic, BAA RFP, etc.)

• The Funding Proposal

• The Proposal Process

• Proposal Evaluation

• The Budget Section

• Begin Funder/ corporate outreach

Week 6: Proposal Prep & Proposal Library: Outlining

• Why should you pre-write a proposal

• Write the outline for an Old Solicitation

• Iterate the outline

• Score Outline Against Evaluation Criteria

• Outline At Least Three Past Performance

• Continue Funder/ corporate outreach

Week 7: Proposal Prep & Proposal Library: Statement of Work (SOW)

• Allocate pages

• Write your Product Road Map

• Convert product Road Map into an SOW

• Continue Funder/ corporate outreach

Week 8: Proposal Prep & Proposal Library: Drafting

• Convert outline into a draft proposal

• Continue Funder/ corporate outreach

Week 9: Proposal Prep & Proposal Library: Budget Section

• Compute Rates

• Create Budget For Your Current Product

• Convert budget into a Funding Budget

• Continue Funder/ corporate outreach

Week 10: Proposal Prep & Proposal Library:Supplemental Documents 

• Registering in all the necessary systems

• Collect And Review All Supplemental Docs

• Continue Funder/ corporate outreach

Week 11: Old proposal review

• Go through old proposals to discuss why they did, or did not, work

Week 12: Proposal Hackathon

• Two day workshop to convert the content you developed over the last 11 weeks into a submittable proposal aligned to a DoD topic