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Turning an Invention into a Business
By Eric Corl, Idea Buyer LLC
The way most people (and infomercials) portray inventing, it seems like building something is the endgame. Create the widget, the logic goes, and your job is done. All that remains now is sitting back and waiting for fame, fortune and orders to pour [...]
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One of the most common obstacles facing the new inventor is running a patent search. There are many reasons why an inventor would want to do this. The most obvious reason is to justify spending a great deal of time and money on an invention by determining that no one else has patented [...]
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“If you want a recipe for a startup that’s going to die, here it is: a couple of founders who have some great idea they know everyone is going to love, and that’s what they’re going to build, no matter what.”
- Paul Graham
As an inventor, it is all too tempting to fall into [...]
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In inventing, few ideas are more comforting ‘
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One seldom-discussed but important aspect of inventing success is having good technical drawings. A technical drawing varies from a simple sketch or layman’s drawing in a notebook. While these are helpful in the early stages of conceptualizing, a technical drawing is a much more detailed visual representation intended to “concisely and clearly communicate [...]
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Do you feel like you have worked so hard to move your invention along, and now you are just stuck? Do you just need some guidance as to where to go from here?
Hopefully this newsletter series has helped you to understand the normal progression of the invention process, while helping you figure out [...]