Chutzpah, the Schmooze, and Entrepreneurship
In my 30-year career of launching products, chutzpah is the one quality that is mandatory for becoming successful.
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Moving at the Right Pace
Some inventors move way too fast to market, overlooking key considerations that could help them succeed or prevent them from wasting a lot of money. Some inventors move too slowly, paralyzed from too much analysis, and fail to move on their idea when it has a chance to succeed.
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The Language (and Vision) of Inventing
The inventor’s language, as I think of it, is a vision of form as well as sounds and their symbolic equivalents.
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Future Tech on Film
Science and art are constantly inspiring one another. Movies, in particular, are famous and infamous for their ability to show us fantastic worlds and inventions that could not exist in our world that has to abide by the laws of physics—and the technology of the present.
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Instant Underwear?
We’ll keep this brief.
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When Was the 3 Millionth Patent Granted?
U.S. Patent No. 3,000,000 was granted to Dr. Kenneth R. Eldredge of Palo Alto, California, for an automatic reading system for utilities.
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Going With the Flowbee
The TV reporter was astonished when Clooney told her he uses a Flowbee to cut his hair. He said he had been using the device—a vacuum cleaner attachment that comes with 10 plastic spacers—for 22 years. Was he serious?
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Stretch Solution
Plantar fasciitis took Jim Cooper from being a world-class distance runner to being unable to walk. Now both his toes and a career as an inventor are inclined upward.
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