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  1. ThirtyOne

    The Licensing Game

    GOLD! 
    first off, congrats! any details you can share? For this idea, I think you are right--submitting original visual designs is the way to go.
  2. ThirtyOne

    christmas card business

    HOT! 
    i was being facetious, but I could see how you're value add would be cards shipped anywhere from your laptop. Xmas i hate you card? Judas could work.
  3. ThirtyOne

    christmas card business

    HOT! 
    @Puppy is right. no on the leaflets. better to place a bunch of empty envelopes that say "Merry Xmas" on people's mailboxes, with a tiny piece of paper on the inside that says, "Sucks to not get a xmas card, doesn't it?" *url* url options: cardsforchristmas.com or you could go with...
  4. ThirtyOne

    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    At this point, I'm not going to worry too much about it. I'll see if I can get the game dev to play ball first.
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    @MJ DeMarco is there a way for me to edit the title of my post to sound less "doomsday"? As other users have implied, people might be turned off by what is otherwise intended to be a helpful case study. "Watch me attempt to strike a licensing deal" instead of the current title?
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    Two people have said this now--time to adjust. Thank you @Amon and @AgainstAllOdds for the feedback. As a result, I've edited the original post to be less self-effacing. My intent wasn't to embrace or be proud of failure. This whole thread was intended as a case study for a first attempt at...
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    From what I know, I could own the design patent if the game developer was willing, which makes sense to me because they aren't in the business of manufacturing this physical product, so what good will it do them to own the design patent? Also, they don't actively seek licensees for...
  8. ThirtyOne

    Pyramid Scheme 2.0

    MINDSET RANT 
    A business with no customers and only distributors is a pyramid scheme. It sounds like this is poised to be one of those.
  9. ThirtyOne

    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    You are correct. I want to be the middleman. However, I do want to design the product and prototype it, and then give it to the manufacturer. I'm currently in a full-time job that I'm trying to break away from, otherwise, I might be the vendor. I'm not sure I wanna take that risk yet...that's...
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    I've read Vigilante's informative thread. But it's a wealth of information that's hard to absorb and recall when I need it since I'm new at this. Maybe I'm going about this all wrong, but I want to do what his client did. License the property from the brand/game dev, then turn around and...
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks for the insight. Yeah, it's expensive. So, the only reason for me to do it is to learn the ins and outs of licensing Fast and with Quality (can't be Cheap then, eh?) Otherwise, I learn all this stuff on my own through my wins and failures, making it Quality and Cheap for me, but not...
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    You seem like you got it all correct. To answer your question, I am seeking a quote for a similar physical product so I can familiarize myself with the category. I am completely new to it, and have no idea about landed costs, and so wouldn't know what numbers make an acceptable deal for me...
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    I'm not setting out to fail, but I'm willing to fail until I eventually win.
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    UPDATE: I reached out to three manufacturers today. Two of them didn't answer their phones at all. So I emailed them. The third answered and got me to someone in sales so I could ask them for the quote. They wouldn't give me a quote unless I was registered with them as a distributor. I said, I...
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    Both. What I did was find the top three sellers of the product on Amazon and looked up who manufactures for them. Then I went to their sites and found out that they happen to all be operate in the U.S., but one of them manufactures overseas for sure. They do. However, currently, they only have...
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    Good idea. Thanks. He knows what he's doing in this industry.
  17. ThirtyOne

    Moving from low to high production

    Provisional patent protects your idea from others, including yourself. Patents are greedy suckers in that its whole purpose it to disallow anyone else from doing an idea, but the person who filed the patent. Others: If someone sees your idea and tries to take it to market, you have proof that...
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    Watch me struggle my way through a licensing deal

    EXECUTION 
    Come watch me attempt my first licensing deal. Here's the plan: Get with a specific popular esport game developer and license a property from them (it's a tiny property within their game, but with good traction among their base). Then, take that to a manufacturer and get quotes on what it...
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    Inventing in my sleep to save my parents lives

    INTRO 
    Well, I figure it's time to intro myself, seeing as how I've started inventing in my sleep. Last night, I dreamed that I was looking around at products in my childhood home trying to see how I could incrementally improve upon them. Why? My parents, 70 years old next year, haven't been able to...
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    Licensing Question...

    owning a license to manufacture and sell something is only good if you can manufacture and sell it. Dupont is in the biz of manufacturing and selling paints. Auto body shops are in the biz of painting your car. Make sense?

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