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Prototypes and Models
Time to put that idea into physical form. Information on prototyping, working models, and the difference between alpha and beta prototypes.
 
Why are Prototypes Important?
The Difference between Alpha, Beta, and Functional Prototypes
Prototyping Basics – The First Steps to Creating Your Invention
Making a Prototype – How and Why?
How Can You Find The Right Prototyper?
Brush Up on the Fundamentals of Prototype Making
Prototype and Engineering Issues
Quick Free Prototypes & Models
Presentation on Prototyping
Inventive Voices - Prototyping
  • Start Inventing
    How you can think of invention ideas, how to document them.
     
  • 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.
     
  • Design Your Invention
    Learn how to best sketch, draw, and design your inventions and ideas.
     
  • 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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