[jseliger]

I'm fairly certain this won't make the front page, but... I have a friend who bootstrapped his company using the SBIR program.

It's not a bad program for people doing certain kinds of things. I've actually submitted links to a number of SBIR RFPs—here's one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3751894—but I don't think they've ever gotten a substantial number of upvotes—which is really too bad, since they could be quite useful for HN readers.

Has your buddy written about his experience with an SBIR grant? If not, encourage him to. If he doesn't have a place to post it, we'd be happy to have it as a guest post here: http://blog.seliger.com.

I have the distinct displeasure of reading the Federal Register every week, so I usually see the RFP announcements.