by Alan | Apr 29, 2015 | Career success, Keys to Success, Resourcefulness, Strategy
As I have mentioned in several past posts, today's landscape of corporate success looks nothing like the picture in the 70s and 80s. Below are some relevant previous posts: Changing Landscape Why Inventors Matter Mellow Monday Part II A recent Gallup poll indicated...
by Alan | Apr 25, 2015 | Ideas, Invention, Keys to Success, Licensing, Marketing, Strategy, Why inventors fail, Wiling to reconsider
The next three blogs will address three topics important to inventors: Focus Finance Feedback Today's topic: Feedback The process of dreaming up an idea, transforming it into an invention, then a product, and getting it into the marketplace is a meticulous, difficult...
by Alan | Apr 22, 2015 | Ideas, Invention, Keys to Success, Licensing, Marketing, Strategy
The next three blogs will address three topics important to inventors: Focus Finance Feedback Today's topic: Finance One of the greatest challenge for inventors is that of how to finance their inventions. Inventing is a high-risk profession – less than 3% of...
by Alan | Apr 18, 2015 | Career success, Focus, Ideas, Invention, Keys to Success, Licensing, Marketing, Product validation, Strategy, Why inventors succeed
The next three blogs will address three topics important to inventors: Focus Finance Feedback The focus (pun intended) of this first blog: Focus. I have touched on this topic in previous blogs including this one. Focus is a key tenet of successful...
by Alan | Apr 13, 2015 | Ideas, Invention, Keys to Success, Licensing, Marketing, Product success, resilience, Resourcefulness, Setbacks
New inventors sometimes ask me questions like these below: How soon can I get my product “out there”? How long will it take me to get my product licensed? How long will it be before I make money from my product? The above questions have a common...