inventrepreneurship by paul ingram

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“Inventrepreneurship”Paul Ingram | Ingram Labs, Inc.

In•ven•tre•pre•neur

Noun.

A person who invents a particular process, program or gadget, taking on greater than normal personal risk in order to see it work.

| inˈventrəprəˈnoŏr; -ˈnər |

How many of you have ideas for products, services, tools?

Do them.

Do them. The end.

Where do ideas come from?

When two people love each other

They hug for a really long time

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We all have ideas.They happen to us.

Most ideas are worth a little more thought than we give them.

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Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.”

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— Alfred North Whitehead, 1938

1.Get your head in the right place.2.Prototype your idea.3.Recruit a team.4.Launch. Build. Tweak.5.Next?

Doing something about them.

1. Get your head in the right place.

1. Get your head in the right place.

Where do ideas go?

Been done.Won’t work.

Stupid.

Too hard.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”

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— Alfred Bernhard Nobel

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having tried.”

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— C.S. Lewis

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3. Recruit a team.

3. Recruit a team with no money.

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InventionConceives, researches & plans the idea. Determine needed resources & recruit a team

ProductionBased on drawings, docs, research,the team produces a launch-able product.

RevenueAny money generated by license fees,sales or company/product acquisition.

Royalty DistributionTeam members or outside labor and other costs are subtracted from Revenue and distributed based on previously agreeed upon percentages.

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4. Launch. Build Tweak.

4. Launch. Build. Tweak.

Expose your work.

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Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.”

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— Alfred North Whitehead

4. Launch. Build. Tweak.

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How many of you have ideas for products, services, tools?

What works for you?

Do it.

Do it. The end.

Do it. The end.Paul Ingram / Ingram Labs, Inc.paul@ingramlabs.com