Quotables (for those who don't want to read through the entire link):
"I filled my first patent at the age of 19 and I've been inventing for 35+ years since."
"Some of my inventions were designed to help people and they also made money. An invention that helps people, but losses money, is not sustainable. Such things fail quickly."
"I go to conferences around America in many different fields. There I just step up to people and ask them what problems they have, and what would they pay for a solution."
"I tried going straight into business, but it was a failure. The ability to invent useful technologies was not enough to be successful. How to monetize a technology is the truly hard part of inventing. An invention that can not be sold is useless as a technology. After I went into industry for a few years and figured out how to do that, it was smooth sailing."
"The time required to invent something is actually quite complex. Most of the time is used to actually identify the question or to define the problem. In most cases, one can not invent the answer because the problem is posed in a manner where there is no invention. When you rephrase the character of the problem, the invent pops out almost immediately. The people who have the problem usually "lie" It is not that they are bad and lying. The problem is that they look at the problem in a manner that can not be resolved or in some cases they can not find the problem. They can not tell you the real problem so they mislead you. Your job is to look at the situation and find the hidden problem -- which is the real opportunity. Once this is identified, the invention is just a few minutes away."
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"I filled my first patent at the age of 19 and I've been inventing for 35+ years since."
"Some of my inventions were designed to help people and they also made money. An invention that helps people, but losses money, is not sustainable. Such things fail quickly."
"I go to conferences around America in many different fields. There I just step up to people and ask them what problems they have, and what would they pay for a solution."
"I tried going straight into business, but it was a failure. The ability to invent useful technologies was not enough to be successful. How to monetize a technology is the truly hard part of inventing. An invention that can not be sold is useless as a technology. After I went into industry for a few years and figured out how to do that, it was smooth sailing."
"The time required to invent something is actually quite complex. Most of the time is used to actually identify the question or to define the problem. In most cases, one can not invent the answer because the problem is posed in a manner where there is no invention. When you rephrase the character of the problem, the invent pops out almost immediately. The people who have the problem usually "lie" It is not that they are bad and lying. The problem is that they look at the problem in a manner that can not be resolved or in some cases they can not find the problem. They can not tell you the real problem so they mislead you. Your job is to look at the situation and find the hidden problem -- which is the real opportunity. Once this is identified, the invention is just a few minutes away."
IAmA serial inventor with 120+ patents to my name. I've started dozens of successful businesses from my inventions. AMAA : IAmA
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