This blog is dedicated to inventors and their inventions. We will have posts on how to be more creative, help with patents, cool and not so cool inventions and inventor spotlights. The invention spotlight is your chance to promote a product that you invented. We’ll provide a link to your website so readers can learn [...]

Patents can be useless. I have six of them credited to my name and my former employer never got a nickel from them. I got a few thousand dollars in bonuses but inventions do not equal innovation. Michael Schrage has a great definition of innovation: “Innovation’ isn’t what innovators do….it’s what customers and clients adopt.” [...]

I took a few classes in marketing during my time in graduate school getting my MBA degree and I was always intrigued by the Four P’s of marketing. Product, Price, Promotion, and Placement. Placement is really distribution but the 3 P’s and a D doesn’t have the same ring as The Four Peas. The key [...]

The 5 Whys The “5 Whys” is a simple yet powerful problem solving tool that helps get to the bottom of a problem. The 5 Whys quickly cuts through the clutter to get the root cause. This problem solving approach was developed by Sakuchi Toyoda, a Japanese inventor and industrialist. The 5 Why’s later became [...]

“I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques [...]

For some, this may be the way to go. Essentially no cost but the trade-off is that they get 50% of the licensing royalty. Here is their address: http://www.bigideagroup.net/index.htm In my opinion, you will learn more and probably earn more taking the route of a share equity deal that Mark Reyland advocates. So just in [...]

This was the quote of the day that popped up on my Google home page. “Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”- Howard Aiken Did you ever have a similar experience? Related Articles Free 2-D CAD Software – DraftSight for you next new [...]

We all need a helping hand from time to time. I’m very excited about sharing a new forum for inventors. It’s called The Inventor’s Mentors Library. This forum is really different. No chit chat, just the facts you need from people you can trust. People in the industry that know what they are talking about. [...]

(click on the graphic to enlarge) Inventing, like most things in life is not a “one size fits all” endeavor. There is one goal, to see you idea get to market, but different paths to get you there. The path you take is a decision based on how much work you want to do, your [...]

If you are looking for a high quality prototype service provider I can recommend one I’ve worked with for over 13 years. http://1prototype.com/ It is a rapid prototyping service provided by Motorola in Plantation, Florida. I know most of the people in the shop having worked there from 1993-2007. The can make the most basic [...]