Comments on: A Beginner’s Guide: How to Rent Your Ideas to Fortune 500 Companies (Plus: Video)

By: I need the important info

I need the important info — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:10:03 +0000

I think that this was very interview was good. But I don’t know about the rest of you, but all anyone in the business seems to give is vague information. I never see list of companies that are willing to even listen to your idea. It’s like you only get enough of information to “tie” you over, but if you think about you never get any information that you can say o.k. now let me try these guys. Maybe it’s just me but it’s like they say “Yeah it was a long hard journey to get to the water, but I finally got there. But your still left wondering how did they get to the water? How did they travel? By train,plane or automobile?

By: I have an idea for an invention...

I have an idea for an invention... — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:24:41 +0000

[...] in the business of funding entrepreneurs. The ideas are secondary, easy to find, not so important. Tim Ferriss is also worth reading on the subject. [...]

By: Stephen Key

Stephen Key — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:42:55 +0000

Always remember you are selling benefits. Some industries require some type of intellectual property protection such as patents, trademarks and copyrights. I have found in 30 years of selling ideas that most of my ideas had no protection what so ever. Sometimes just having trade secrets in some industries is enough. Some industries because they are fashion industries just want to be first to market so they don’t care if you have any protection what so ever. In some industries having just a trademark or copyright is enough. If you have an advertising concept, is there anything that could be copyrighted? It’s a very affordable form of protection for $45. It’s not the best protection but it’s not bad. You could possibly even trademark the name of your concept. Walking into an ad agency and pitching an idea without some type of IP could be difficult. I would call a local advertising agency and represent yourself as a copyrighter/creative genius. Ask them if they take outside submissions.

If you would like more information you can always visit my website inventrightdotcom I am always giving free lectures, have a weekly radio show and a weekly newsletter.

We are also developing a new program. Thousands of companies are looking for new ideas through open innovation. Because most creative people/industrial designers and such do not have the skills to bring their ideas to market we are teaching classes on how to become a licensing expert/product scout so that people that have business skills can find these great ideas and bring these two groups together and benefit from it. I taught this class in Australia and it was very well received. You can learn more at Stephenkeydotcom If you have any other questions please let me know.

By: Kathleen Maples

Kathleen Maples — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:31:39 +0000

same question as “spamncheese” July 14th,2009 6:57pm. How to sell an idea which is not patentable, such as an advertising campaign or retail business? I also have one for a fortune 500 company.

By: spamncheese

spamncheese — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:57:40 +0000

This is great information for new product inventions, but what if you have an idea which is not patentable, such as an advertising campaign or retail business?