Why paying a grant consultant a percentage of your award is a problem
Success fees on federal grants are generally unallowable, and the exposure falls on the grantee rather than the consultant. What the rules actually say.
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Insights
Notes on how federal funding and private capital actually work — written for the people making the decisions, not for search engines. No gate, no form.
Most strong proposals fail on fit, not on science
Program selection decides more outcomes than proposal quality does. How agencies differ, and why the choice has to be made before anything is written.
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Non-dilutive funding first: why sequence changes what your round costs
For research-driven companies, what you prove with grant funding before raising materially changes the terms available. The reasoning and the trade-offs.
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