The Strategic Inventor

If this topic seems familiar, I touched upon it in another blog back in 2014. I'll look at it from a different perspective in today's post. One morning, as I was showering, I had an ‘aha' epiphany for a slim wallet that would hold many cardsbut also be flexible...

Inventors – Why Your Friends are Your Worst Enemies

For over fourteen years, I made a living, first part-time and now full-time, from creative endeavors, most especially, inventing. It took me a few years to realize that many of foundational values of the corporate world, don't work well at all in the inventing,...

Inventor’s Story: from the Pits to a Peak

I decided to tell a bit of my personal story because I think mirrors the experiences of many entrepreneurs and, especially, inventors. I will set the stage a bit like a novel with three different timeframes and what was going on in my life during each. September 2009...

Real World of Inventing

Very little is written about the real world of inventing. Many wannabe inventors love to do the following: Come up with ideas for new products Create working prototypes of our ideas Hope to find someone to “buy” the idea or invention To succeed as an...