Invent a product that fits the market’s Goldilocks zone. Not too hot; not too cold; just right—a market that has enough competition that you know buyers are searching it but not so much that you’ll be lost in the crowd.
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An issued patent with approved claims is often key to selling your invention.
A prototype is mainly valuable when you can demonstrate it. But a looks-like, nonfunctional prototype can also be used for sell-sheets.
Novelty is nice, but an invention that solves a problem is the most important claim.
The world is full of products that aren’t patented. These products are prior art as certain as patents are.
Odds favor ‘the house’ in many ways but can’t stop our determination.
What affects the odds perhaps most of all is our approach to inventing.
This is a true story. And like many stories, it has a protagonist, (the main character, usually a hero) and an antagonist, (the purported villain who opposes the hero). It also has a third important character who slips in and out of the story as the super-villain.
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