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Creativity and Inspiration
- Generate more Creative Ideas
- Free Writing a Creative Technique for Inventors and Creatives
- Product Design Inspiration For Your Invention Ideas
- Keeping an Eye on Product Trends for Stimulating Invention Ideas
- Brainstorming for Creative Invention Ideas with a Thinkpak
- Creative Thinking Exercises for Inventors using Random Words
- Creative Thinking Techniques for an Inventor
Patents and Intellectual Property
- Patent Attorney Matthew Allen Offers Advice on Protecting your Intellectual Property
- Patent Search Online Yourself
- Interview with US Patent Attorney Eric Hanscom who offers Advice on Protecting your IP
- Non Disclosure Agreements for Designers and Inventors
- Interview about how the British Library Business and IP Centre can Help Inventors
- Part 4 – Filing a US Provisional Patent Plus Useful Books and Software
Learn to Build a Website to Sell your Product
- A website with free tutorials to teach you step by step how to create a simple website to sell your invention – www.buildwebsitetutorial.com
Raising Money
- Invention Funding using Crowdfunding
- Interview with Inventor Delia Strand who used Angel Investment to Fund her Invention
- Invention Development Manufacture and Funding Advice from Phil Staunton D2M
- How to validate a business idea cheaply
Licensing
- Podcast Interview with Inventor Roger Brown who gets his Ideas Licensed by Spending Less than $100
- 8 Ways to Find Companies to License your Invention Ideas to
- Stephen Key talks about how he Licenses Invention Ideas (Podcast)
- One Simple Idea by Stephen Key, the Inventing Book with a Fresh Perspective
- Inventor Friendly Companies to Submit Invention Ideas
Manufacture
- Find the Ideal Material to Make your Invention Ideas Work or Just Stimulate Ideas
- Interview with Product Development Expert Joseph Donoghue
Toy Invention
- Learn how to License Your Toy Invention with Mary Ellroy Toy Inventor and Agent
- Interview with Toy and Game Inventor Kim Vandenbroucke
- Interview with Toy Inventor Peter A Wachtel – Podcast
- A Game Inventors Guide to Starting a Board Game Company
- Interview with Successful Toy Inventor Tony Ellis, Creator of Cube World
- Interview with Ron Weingartner Toy Inventor and Co Author of The Toy and Game Inventors Handbook
- Interview with Jason Garcia about his Second Successful Invention
- Interview with Toy Inventor Bill Ward
- Interview with Whirred Play Game Inventor Philip Annets
- Video Interview with a Game Inventor
- How Toy Inventors Kurt Marquart and Elaine de la Mata Licensed Squaredy Cats
- Toyland a Great Movie all about Toy Inventors
- How to Invent an Internationally Bestselling Toy
Inventor Collaboration
- Connecting with Inventors and Likeminded People – Part 1
- Connecting with Inventors and Likeminded People – Part 2
- Six Ways Twitter can Help Inventors
- Online Collaboration Tools for Inventors
Creating Sell Sheets
- Free and Inexpensive 3D software for Inventors to Create Sell Sheets
- Cheap and Free Photos for your Invention Sell Sheets
- Have you used Video for your Presenting your Inventions?
Prototypes
Inventor Interviews
- There are now well over 50 inventor interviews on this blog that you can look through here: http://ideasuploaded.com/category/inventor-interviews/
- 20 Successful Inventors offer their Advice to Aspiring Inventors
- Podcasts for Inventors Creatives and Entrepreneurs
Competitions
- I try and post about any competitions I find and they will be posted at this link
Hi, I'm Tara a freelance graphic designer based in Northamptonshire, UK with future ambitions to be more of an ideas, invention, product designer person. This blog will include useful inventor information I find plus inventor interviews. You can also find me at www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk