Kedma Ough

Entrepreneur, Inventor, Speaker; SBDC Director

Kedma Ough is a proven champion for small businesses. She is an inventor, author, speaker and a fifth-generation entrepreneur. Ough provides honest, straightforward education to innovators on feasibility, funding and free resources.

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Thought Leaders

Stop Trying to Make Yourself Fit a Career That’s Not Right For You

A new assessment tool guides users toward ventures and business models that are a more natural match for their inherent personality traits.

Thought Leaders

10 Steps to Become an Industry Expert in the Next 12 Months

It takes focus and common sense.

Building a Business

Use the ‘FACT’ Approach to Launch the Right Idea

Not sure which of your babies to kick out of the nest first? Use this method.

Building a Business

Partners Await Inventors Who Need Help Building Prototypes

Universities and the federal government have programs that provide more help than many inventors could otherwise dream of affording.

Building a Business

5 Ways to Determine Your Authentic Claim to Fame

Your elevator pitch summarizes what you're selling. Now summarize your achievements so people have the confidence to buy from you.

Building a Business

Low-Cost Patent Search Options for Inventors on a Budget

Inventors routinely believe they were the first to think of their great idea. They are not routinely correct.

Building a Business

The Feds Have $2.5B Available to Fund Innovative Small Companies

The Small Business Administration is crisscrossing the nation to educate entrepreneurs about how to apply for grants focused on early stage companies.

Building a Business

A 5-Step Reality Check for Inventors

The only easy parts of developing an invention are underestimating the costs and over-estimating the market.

Marketing

4 Tips for Making Millions Quickly Marketing Through Infomercials

Though often lampooned, these long-form commercials are the original viral-marketing success story.

Marketing

6 Tips for Getting Your Product Sold in Big Box Stores This Season

The largest retailers have an insatiable demand for promising merchandise. Persistence is key to finding your spot on their shelves.

Marketing

Inventors Have a New Opportunity to Showcase Their Product on National TV

The immensely popular Today show has segment for new products but getting selected is about as challenging as creating that gadget you're selling.

Thought Leaders

Encouragement Is Growing for Women Inventors

Women filed about a third of all trademarks in recent years but fewer than a fifth of patents. There is help to get everybody's good ideas turned into products.