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Due Diligence
Ensure you are working on the RIGHT invention. Learn about patent searches, how to find competing products, market research, pricing, and estimating costs.
 
Google Images: A Great Way to Do Product Research
Primary vs. Secondary Market Research
How to estimate the cost to manufacture your invention
How to do your own surveys & focus groups
How to do a shelf study
How to analyze the competition
The Three Biggest Concerns Inventors Have - Part 2
The Three Biggest Concerns Inventors Have – Part 1
Sacrifice - How Much is Too Much?
Using Wikipedia For New Product Research
When to Fire a Customer
Tips for Inventors
10 Questions for Inventors
Market Research for Inventors
The First 5 Things to Do With Your Idea
Determining the Marketability of Your Invention
Small Business Center Inventor Video
Determining Market Size
Mr. Inventor - Patent Searches
A Patent Search in 7 Steps
Tips for Inventors
5-Minute Inventing - Part 3: Will it Sell?
5-Minute Inventing - Part 2: I Have the Invention Idea, Now What?
  • Start Inventing
    How you can think of invention ideas, how to document them.
     
  • Design Your Invention
    Learn how to best sketch, draw, and design your inventions and ideas.
     
  • Prototypes and Models
    Time to put that idea into physical form. Information on prototyping, working models, and the difference between alpha and beta prototypes.
     
  • Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
    Your invention deserves protection. Learn how to use provisional patents, utility patents, trademarks, and copyrights to protect your intellectual property.
     
  • Financing Inventions
    You're going to need money, find out how to get it.
     
  • Licensing Your Invention
    You decide not to build a business around your invention and instead want to license it. Find out how.
     
  • Manufacturing Your Invention
    Want to manufacture your invention? Find out what you need to know and how to do it.
     
  • Building a Business
    Thinking about your invention like a business? Business plans, incorporating, website design, hiring, and other topics of interest to inventors and entrepreneurs.
     
  • Marketing, Sales, and Public Relations
    If you have an invention, you better think about selling it. Information here will help you use marketing, advertising, public relations to convert sales into profits.
     
  • Audio Tips for Inventors
    Stephen KeyStephen Key, an ultra-successful serial inventor with over 20 products licensed in the last 15 years, and Andrew Krauss, founder of one of the largest inventor groups in the US, share their tips for IdeaTango inventors.

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