You can lead a horse to water..
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Now, it's an INVENTION. And it could have been YOUR INVENTION!!!
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..But you can't make him drink! "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!"-- You've heard that expression a million times and didn't give it a second thought. -- You thought what it meant but no one ever explained what it meant: It means that YOU are behaving like a big stubborn horse even when somebody tells or shows you how to do something better and right. You'll do it as you damn please. You'll do it YOUR OWN WAY. -- Well, Good Luck. [Have you ever thought that some good people are trying to really help you?] !! -- "You are so damn-stubborn that it hurts." - [I bet you've heard that said, too!]
- O.K. Wake up and watch the road... -- You're driving along in your car when a thought hits you. It's an idea. You think about it for a minute or two and it leaves you. -- About ten minutes later, it re-enters your mind. You toss it around. It's a good idea, a good thought...an Invention. -- You now give it a lot more time in your mind. You think that it is a great idea and when you get time to write it down, you will.. -- You arrive at your destination and forget about 'this idea.' You don't write it down. -- -- About two weeks later: Whadiya-know, the idea comes back to you! You now think differently: -
- a. "If that idea was any good, somebody else must have thought about it long ago?"
- b. "So, what do I know about inventing??"
- c. "It probably costs too much to invent and make it?"
- d. "I'd just be wasting my time.. Why should I think that I could be so lucky as to become rich?" $-) -- You even figured that if you told somebody your 'idea,' they'd laugh at it--or tell you that it's no good and then steal it from you. And-and-and... -- Two years later, an infomercial is on tv and they're selling something almost like your invention?? You aren't calling it an idea anymore. Now, it's an INVENTION. And it could have been YOUR INVENTION!!! -- "A mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it" -- T.S.Eliot
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Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation
pertinacious \puhr-tin-AY-shuhs\,
adjective:
1 Holding or adhering obstinately to any opinion, purpose, or design.
2. Stubbornly or
perversely
persistent. -- -- VOCABULARY -- -- Footnote: -- I like independence--they call that "pluck." mettle , heart , fight
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"What is your marketing budget for this product for the first year?"
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-- "How do I know the company I license my product to is going to do anything with it?" -- It's true, you can't ask a company what they think they will sell - because as a new product no one knows what will sell, or how many. You can predict anything but the future - you can only guess about the future. -- Two Critical Questions
-- There are two questions to ask. The first is "What are your sales goals?" Every firm should have a realistic sales goal they are reaching to achieve - it will be this goal that they will loosely base their first production run on.
-- The more important question - the critical question - the question every company owner or product developer should know is... is... I'm building suspense... is... How much money is in their marketing budget for this product?
-- Yes, that's right - they may not know how many they are going to sell, but they all have a budget of what they are going to spend to bring the product to market. So if you ask only one question, this is the one question to ask: "What is your marketing budget for this product for the first year?" In their answer you'll be able to see how serious they are in marketing your product. -- As a marketing guy I can tell you any firm that is serious about marketing your product will have a budget for marketing. If they don't, they're not really serious about selling it, are they? It's unrealistic to say, "Well, we'd like to sell 2,000 of these (or 20,000; or 50,000) but we have no budget to work with to acquire these sales!" It would just be a pipe dream then, wouldn't it? You can do those pipe dreams yourself. You need to get an answer of what they are going to spend to get your product off the ground? -- While no one may know how many they're going to sell, they all should have a budget. -- Jeff Dobkin www.dobkin.com
-- CourseSeeker.com is the leading global training reservation system for business professionals who need a fast and simple way to find the training they need, from the vendor they want, at the most convenient time and location.
-- CourseSeeker is to the training industry what Orbitz is to travel.
-- -- WHY IS COURSESEEKER NEEDED?
- The process of identifying training vendors, and navigating their websites for course listings and schedules is extremely cumbersome and time consuming.
-- -- WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF USING COURSESEEKER?
- Your time is valuable! The days of manual internet searches and time consuming visits to numerous websites are over. CourseSeeker is quick and easy to use! Everything you need to search, evaluate vendors, and register for training is available at CourseSeeker.com.
-- -- HOW DOES COURSESEEKER WORK?
- Logon to CourseSeeker.com. Enter your search criteria. Review and evaluate the course listings. Select the course that satisfies your vendor, date and location requirements. Safely and securely purchase your class.
-- -- WHAT DOES COURSESEEKER COST?
- Nothing! It's free for students.
-- -- WHAT ARE THE VENDOR BENEFITS?
- Improved market visibility.
- Minimal cost.
- Improved cash flow.
- Automated registration.
- No upfront costs with fee for performance
- Shane Deay
sdeay@courseseeker.com
url:
www.courseseeker.com
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-- "If you have any ideas for medical devices or healthcare products.."
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-- -- Open Call to All Medical Inventors -- -- Eureka Medical, Inc. was launched in the Spring of 2004 as a spin off from leading innovation agent, Big Idea Group. -- Eureka Medical is a resource for talented inventors and busy medical professionals with medical ideas but limited time and resources to pursue them. As an intermediary with resources, know-how, connections and a passion for medical innovation, Eureka is ideally positioned to help inventors connect their medical breakthroughs to the appropriate channels and sponsor companies. -- Eureka is guided on their board by Professor Clayton Christensen, thought leader on innovation at Harvard Business School, and Dr. Jerome Grossman, the healthcare visionary at Harvard's Kennedy School. -- Eureka is sponsoring their Medical Invention Roadshow to seek out medical device solutions and healthcare products for both professional healthcare and consumer markets. There is an open call to all medical inventors who would like to present their ideas to a panel of medical and innovation experts. The panel includes medical device and healthcare industry experts who will evaluate your inventions and ideas for selection to sponsor companies and potential licensing and venture partners. -- If you have any ideas for medical devices or healthcare products, register for a free, private, confidential invention review at Eureka's upcoming Roadshow in:
BOSTON, MA - 2008 -- For more information about Eureka Medical and their Medical Invention Roadshow, please visit www.eurekamed.com or contact their Client Relations Manager, Donna Voiland at donna@eurekamed.com or by telephone 781-229-5878 -- Eureka Medical, Inc -- One Burlington Business Center -- 67 South Bedford Street, Suite 400W --
Burlington, MA 01803 -- "Pharmalicensing.com" -- -- "Circle Medical Devices - Outsourced medical device engineering and contract manufacturing" -- -- "ThirdAid.com - Online patient to patient medical help community" --
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-- "Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious."
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-- Strange 'Idle Thoughts' -- -- We like our funnies short and sweet, like a midget covered in honey. -- Here are a few pithy thoughts to ponder, mull over and chew on, although not necessarily in that order: -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -- If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before. -- Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. -- Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. -- Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. -- It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. -- For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. -- If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip. -- Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. -- A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good. -- Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. -- No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes. -- Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it. -- There is always one more imbecile than you counted on. -- Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world. -- If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be "meetings." -- There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." -- People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. -- The one thing that unites all human beings regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that deep down inside, we all believe we are above average drivers. -- "I've Learned by Andy Rooney.doc" --
Subject: The Positive sideLiving on Earth is expensive,
But it does include a free trip
Around the sun every year.
How long a minute is
Depends on what side of the
Bathroom door you're on.
Birthdays are good for you;
The more you have,
The longer you live.
Happiness comes through doors you
Didn't even know you left open.
Ever notice that the people who are late
Are often much jollier
Than the people who have to wait for them? Most of us go to our grave
With our music still inside of us. If Wal-Mart is lowering prices every day,
How come nothing is free yet? You may be only one person in the world,
But you may also be the world to one person. Some mistakes are too much fun
To only make once. Don't cry because it's over;
Smile because it happened.
We could learn a lot from crayons:
Some are sharp, some are pretty,
Some are dull, some have weird names,
And all are different colors....but
They all exist very nicely in the same box. A truly happy person is one who
Can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte said,
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." -- "Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." --
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks -- "South Korea to build robot theme parks - Invention - MSNBC.com" -- -- Thought of the day: --
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"One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us." --
Mary Kay,
1915-2001, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
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"Most of these promising new products are coming from the creative minds of independent inventors."
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The Birth of a New Product
By Bob Lougher, Executive Director,
United Inventors Association-- At the beginning of each New Year, you can't pick up a magazine, newspaper or turn on the TV without someone showcasing the year's most promising new products. -- These are newsworthy items, but how many people stop for just a minute and wonder where these new products are coming from. Most of these promising new products are coming from the creative minds of independent inventors.-- Unfortunately, millions of new product ideas stay locked in those fertile minds because of misinformation, negative image, lack of funds, greedy promoters and lack of information about the process involved. -- If we, as a nation, could somehow release all these ideas and develop them into viable new products, we would once again have the world's strongest economy. We have an economy driven on the influx of new products and technology. -------------------------->>>
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http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html
IASL Members: I am posting the following letter with stern reservations: I have explained the pitfalls of your not-protecting your inventive ideas. I am truly surprised that a patent agent asks for unprotected and most likely un-researched ideas. Read
From: info@usipe.com
Subject: Online Invention Market
Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2008 2:47 PM
Mr. Scheinkman:
I recently discovered the Inventors Association of St. Louis. I am a registered patent agent and received my J.D. from Georgetown.
Just wanted to let you know about the world's first online invention market where members of the public can purchase shares in individual inventions. It's called USIPE (the U.S. Intellectual Property Exchange) and our information website is up and running.
We are targeting the inventors of the world, and if you have a chance, please take a look at http://www.usipe.com/
Basically, you post your invention, and members of the public (called Believers) can invest in shares of your invention, to help you raise enough cash to get a patent. It's the first of its kind.
Do you think any of the inventors in your group would be interested in hearing more about USIPE? Do any of them fail to get patents because they don't have the funds? If so, would you be willing to tell your members about us?
Kind regards,
Andrew Knight, J.D., Registered Patent Agent
info@usipe.com
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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." -- John F.
Kennedy
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To: mic@inventhelper.org
From: deb
Subject: FW: Minnesota Inventor Congress 2008 Awards Fri & Sat (all) - Press Release
Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008 12:07 PM
Attachment: Minnesota Inventors Congress - All Awards 2008.pdf (27KB), EVENT Awards ALL - MIC Email.xls (22KB)
Note: Attached is the complete list of award recipients for the 51st annual Minnesota Inventors Congress. Inventors from 14 states (3 countries) were on hand to exhibit at the Invention & Idea Show™ 2008. If you would like contact information for any of the recipients please feel free to contact our office.
Press release:
For immediate release.
June 15, 2008
The Minnesota Inventors Congress wrapped up the’ 51st annual invention expo last night.
The show floor was filled with inventions that helped solve needs in an inventors’ life. The F. Robert Starr Grand Prize winner, Grant Hanson, Glenwood MN was a heart warming story about how he was trying to help a fellow Vietnam Veterans wife who had suffered a traumatic brain injury. Hanson describes his invention, Walker Rescuer, as a mobility walker designed to safely support its operator in the event of a fall. Very few times in our history have the judges chosen the same invention as the one chosen by the people who attend the congress who vote for their favorite invention. This award is title the Maynard Speece Memorial Award. It happened this year and surprisingly, the runner up for both the grand prize and the people’s choice awards went to the same invention. Pam Turner, Blaine MN, invented the Spiral Eye Needle. She describes her invention very simply as a hand sewing needle with an opening on the side that makes it easy to thread. The awards are named after two people who were very responsible for the success of this non profit organization at the very beginning. Bob Starr is one of the co-founders and Maynard Speece was the voice of the MIC for years. He became one of our biggest fans.
Families enjoyed the entertainment provided by the 3M Visiting Wizards and the KidWind Project. Children learned that science can be fun. Inventions created by inventors from Romania and 14 states in the USA were exhibited this year. On the MIC stage, John Calvert, representing the United States Patent and Trademark Office, presented a session for the student inventor exhibitors and the Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association held two seminars for expo attendees to learn more about intellectual property protection.
Inventing Success Workshops have been a part of the event since the very first Congress held in 1958. Learning the product development process is one of the most important roles we have in educating inventors about how to develop marketable products, according to Deb Hess, Executive Director of the Minnesota Inventors Congress. Stephen Key, inventor and entrepreneur with inventRight.com, helped educate inventors on Friday morning with his session titled “10 Steps to Invention Success” and on Saturday morning Louis Foreman, who is also an inventor and the publisher of Inventors Digest, presented a workshop entitled “You have an idea for a product...what’s next?” Speakers from all over the country come to Redwood Falls MN to help inventors learn how successful inventors develop marketable products. The inventors participating in the workshops find out first hand how energizing it is to be in a room filled with people who are taking the steps necessary to try and make their American dream come true.
Best regards,
Deb Hess
Executive Director
235 S Mill Street
P O Box 71
Redwood Falls MN 56283
507.627.2344 Office
800.468.3681 Toll Free
507.637.4082 Fax
mic@inventhelper.org
www.inventhelper.org
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51st Annual event: Invention & Idea Show - June 13 & 14, 2008
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