Business Ideas
How to Identify the Patent-Worthy Innovations in Your Business
Here's how to know which innovations are truly worth protecting — before putting time and money into filings that may never pay off.
Inventors
Thought Leaders
5 Things to Look for When Hiring a Patent Portfolio Manager
Hiring the right patent portfolio manager is critical to maximizing your enterprise's intellectual property (IP) potential. A competent manager must possess a blend of these five key competencies.
Thought Leaders
Should You Hire an Invention Development Consultant or Handle It on Your Own? Here’s How to Decide.
You've got an idea for the next great product, but now you've got to turn it into reality. Should you hire an invention development consultant or strike out on your own?
Business News
The ‘Father of Peeps’ Has Died. Meet the Founder Who Created the Easter Favorite.
Bob Born is known for creating the machinery to manufacture Peeps.
Thought Leaders
Inventors Are Defined By Their Ability to Overcome Obstacles
Serious inventors -- inventors who repeatedly come up with great inventions -- don't stop.
By Stephen Key
Thought Leaders
The Top 10 Industries to License Your New Product Ideas in 2021
Where to target your creativity this year.
By Stephen Key
Thought Leaders
5 Inventing and Licensing Trends That Will Dominate In 2021
What to know as you're preparing for the year ahead.
By Stephen Key
Building a Business
Protecting Your Critical Inventions On A Tight Budget
A three-step system to get the most value with little cost.
Business News
French Inventor Is First to Cross English Channel Using a Hoverboard
It wasn't an uninterrupted flight, but it was still historic.
By Jon Fingas
Business Ideas
Why You Don’t Need to ‘Reinvent the Wheel’ to be an Entrepreneur
Avoid the hubris of over-stretching yourself when you start out. You will thank me for it.
By Thomas Smale
Building a Business
10 Things You Didn’t Realize Were Invented in the 1990s
From Google.com to Nintendo 64 -- there's much to attribute to the 1990s.
By Rose Leadem
Thought Leaders
Become an Inventor, Just Not a ‘High-Maintenance’ One
Companies want to work only with inventors who are professional and fair -- people who don't waste their time.
By Stephen Key
Business Legal
Cat Fight! How These Inventors Beat the Counterfeiters That Nearly Destroyed Their Company.
When a company copied their invention, Natasha and Fred Ruckel began investigating -- and got an inside look into how products are ripped off.
Business Ideas
Billion-Dollar Inventor Joy Mangano Rebuilt Her Life Thanks to This Simple Idea — And You Can, Too
After selling more than $3 billion in goods, Joy Mangano says people need to realize everything is a product.
By Linda Lacina
Thought Leaders
Greatness Begins With Understanding the Basics of Business
Entrepreneur's must parse the difference between one hit wonders and companies with longevity.
Thought Leaders
8 Quotes From Shark Tank’s Lori Greiner That Will Make You Proud to be An Entrepreneur
Inspiration from the woman of Shark Tank on how to start, and succeed, at being your own boss.
Thought Leaders
Inventor, Entrepreneur and Inspiration for the Movie ‘Joy’ Joy Mangano Shares How to Be Successful
In a recent conversation, Joy Mangano discusses success, creativity, failure and more.
By Rose Leadem
Business Ideas
10 Things You Didn’t Realize Were Invented in the 2000s
Many of the products and services born in the aughts helped shape the world we live in today.
By Rose Leadem
Building a Business
How a Guitar Player With a Problem Turned $12,000 in Savings into a $1.4 Million Business
This contributor needed an attachable guitar amplifier. So he made one -- and raised $60,000 in his first two days.
Building a Business
The Simplest Ideas Can Be Extremely Profitable. Here’s Proof.
Gene Luoma solved a universal problem -- clogged drains -- with a strip of plastic from his garage. His device has sold 33 million units.
By Stephen Key
Business Ideas
The Forgotten Hollywood Icon Whose Genius Made Wi-Fi Possible
Hedy Lamarr's story is being told thanks to a first-time director who heeded the words, 'Do it anyway.'
By Nina Zipkin
Thought Leaders
In Honor of Ronco’s Recent IPO, Check Out These 8 Facts About the Infomercial Pioneer
'But wait, there's more.'
By Rose Leadem
Thought Leaders
12 Inspiring Quotes From the Inventor of the Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell
March 10 marks the day the inventor made the first telephone call.
By Rose Leadem
Thought Leaders
10 of the Most Influential African-American Inventors
To celebrate Black History Month, check out these genius inventions from African-Americans.
By Rose Leadem
Building a Business
The 4 Biggest Mistakes Inventors Make
Product development is a business. You can't afford rookie errors.
By Stephen Key
Thought Leaders
3 Basics for Filing a Patent That Actually Has Value
A provisional patent application will provide as much protection as you need while determining if your idea can really go the distance.
By Stephen Key
Business News
Scientists Made Transparent Wood That’s Stronger Than Glass
See-through wood is now a thing.
By Mat Smith