by: Pete Del Rossi     i help inventors
 
Happy New Year!  If you have made your personal resolution(s) now is the time to make you 2009 business resolution(s).  Keep them simple yet challenging enough to stir your entrepreneurial spirit.  I have a few examples of what they could be so please proceed at your own risk.
We have [...]

by: Pete Del Rossi     i help inventors
 
What you are thinking about and acting upon you will bring about.  It may seem like a very simple statement and it is.  It reminds me of another statement that almost sounds prophetic “You will find what you have lost in the last place that you look”.  Truth being [...]

by: Pete Del Rossi     i help inventors
 
The most important lesson you will ever learn is also one that you should never forget, be it in good times or bad.  You should use this lesson each and every waking business day and practice it in your personal life every time you have the chance.  You must [...]

by: Pete Del Rossi   i help inventors
The fear of failure is one of the top 10 reasons (I will list another 100 that I am personally aware of at a different time) that ideas and inventions do not make it to market.  Since I believe that what you think about you bring about (we can [...]

by: Pete Del Rossi   i help inventors
Productive meetings with manufacturers start with preparation on the part of the inventor or product developer. 
The inventor or developer stakeholders should be present whenever possible.  When engineering changes are considered or engineering change notices (ECN’s) are discussed you should conduct the meeting professionally and have the right partners [...]

by: Pete Del Rossi    i help inventors

 
We are facing uncertain times and our future is unclear.  This statement can be made at any time in the future and it could have been made at any time in the past and it would be correct depending on who “we” are.  If said today by the invention [...]

by: Pete Del Rossi   i help inventors
You can be as sophisticated as you want to be or as sophisticated as you need to be.  The choice is yours but please take a moment to think about this statement.  The difference between the two may be a lot of effort and a lot of money. 
Ultimately [...]

by: Pete Del Rossi   i help inventors
Inventors and product developers often spend every waking moment inching their products and ideas forward.  It may be in very subtle ways but we always seem to find a way to relate the common things in our daily lives to what others would consider work.  This usually leaves very [...]

by: Pete Del Rossi   i help inventors
One sure way to find a scam invention marketing company is to become a victim of one.  This may sound obvious but many inventors will become just that this year, just as they have last year and the years before that. 
The rules are more difficult to navigate for the [...]

by: Pete Del Rossi
Not every inventor needs a manufacturing operation to produce his or her product.  In fact, I would recommend that most inventors hire an outside source to take on this task, at least at the beginning of a new product launch. 
The time requirements and costs associated with equipment, materials and labor needed [...]