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This Week at Breakfast Lab If you're building innovative technology, there's a source of R&D funding you may not be tapping yet, and it doesn't require giving up equity. The federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs make more than $5 billion in non-dilutive capital available to innovative small […]

This Week at Breakfast Lab Thinking about becoming an entrepreneur but not sure if it's really the right path for you? This week, Amy Courter leads a session built around Entrepreneurial Leap (E-Leap), a framework designed specifically for early-stage and aspiring entrepreneurs to figure out whether entrepreneurship is the right fit, and if so, to […]

This Week at Breakfast Lab Working hard on the wrong problem is one of the most expensive mistakes in entrepreneurship. Most founders are great at solving problems, but research suggests 85% of companies struggle to solve the right ones. This hands-on session gives you frameworks for diagnosing what you're really facing, then walks you through […]

This Week at Breakfast Lab Most founders are sitting on a goldmine of useful information: customer interviews, strategy notes, market research, sales conversations, and half-finished ideas. The problem is it's scattered everywhere: folders, docs, inboxes, and people's heads. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to turn your scattered documents into an AI-powered, interlinked knowledge […]

This Week at Breakfast Lab People don't connect with logos or taglines; they connect with stories. But most businesses struggle to tell theirs in a way that actually sticks. In this session, we'll explore what makes brand storytelling so powerful and how you can use it to make your business feel genuinely human. The hardest […]