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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Other - Advertising & Marketing |
A great idea but cannot follow up, do you know how? |
There are many ideas that come up to help those in wheelchairs. These would be great inventions that sell. However, there is no way to make any of my inventive ideas; all they are are ideas. Are there places to send invention ideas to that will follow up and create them? Trust worthy places would be impossible to find? I think what you need is to hook up with a MacGyver type. My husband is forever making and adapting things for use on motorcycles and gliders so that the handicapped can use them. A venture capitalist would help, too, that way you would have some cash to work with. Have you told everyone you know that you are looking for someone to work out your ideas - at least on the drawing board? Networking often connects you with people that you would otherwise never meet. You should also probably see a patent lawyer to see if your ideas could be protected. My husband did that once, too, for an idea that he had and discovered that there was already something like that in the works and protected by patents - best $300.00 he ever spent!! Keep the ideas flowing, you never know who you are going to meet tomorrow. Realize that coming up with ideas is the easy part. Getting the idea realized is the hard part. After you have the idea, you need to see if it's already been invented. The US Patent Office has a database (http://www.uspto.gov/patft/) you can search. Next, you'll want to find someone to build it (or consult with you on better ways to achieve the same result). What's in it for them? Money? Helping others? There are lots of people who can fabricate designs (in metals, plastics, etc.). Prototypes can be expensive, since they'll be working out kinks and it takes awhile to create the first model. I would suggest working (initially) locally with people you know, so you can communicate face-to-face. In the process, you'll learn how to design better for building. |
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