I'm Not Your Lawyer
What is the P.I.T.C.H. Method?
Does This Have Legs?
The Birth of Ideas
Idea v Opportunity
Steps to Invention Validation:
Distribution Channels
Pricing and Revenue Models
Competitor Assessment
Armor Up
IP Types (a.k.a. the Magic Potion of Invention)
Patents: Your Golden Ticket to Dominance in
Your Marketplace
What Do Patentees and Sorcerers Have in Common?
Copyright Rights and the Copycats
Trademarks and Trolls
First to Use v First to File (a.k.a. Tell Me about the Trolls)
Design Rights/Industrial Designs, and Shiny New Armor
What Do Patents, Designs, and Shiny Armor Have in Common?
Trade Secrets, Confidential Information, and KFC (a.k.a. the Not-So-Secret Herbs and Spices)
How to Win in the Boxing Ring
Some Common Punches in the Boxing Ring
A Word about the Boxing Ring
Some Good News
IP Protection Relies on People
Why Great Ideas Die
Assembling a Winning Start-up Squad
The Myers-Briggs Test
The OCEAN Test
The Six Stages of Company Maturity
Find Your Inventor's Ikigai
Sharing the Sauce
So Who Should Get Ownership?
Supporting Player Personalities
Mind the Sharp Curves
Money v Not So Much: Choosing the Right Business Model
Invent to Sell (a.k.a. Take the Money and Run)
Invent to Licence (a.k.a. Pi±a Colada on the Beach)
Invent to Commercialize (a.k.a. Build a Business from Scratch)
The Greater-Good Path (Get Rich v Save the World v Do Both?)
Choose Your Own Inventor Path
Batter Up-Time to Pitch
Using the P.I.T.C.H. Method
Investment Rounds Broken Down (a.k.a. When Do I Need Funding ... What?)
50(+) Shades of Green
The Dating Game
Understand Investors
Risky Business v Safe Bet (a.k.a. Metrics that Matter to Investors)
Sourcing Your Investors (a.k.a. There's No App for That... Oh Wait...)
Sourcing Your Buyers/Licensees
But Nic, How Do I Even Get a Foot in the Door?
(a.k.a. Landing Meetings with Investors)
How to Pitch & Get Rich (Hopefully)
Scams by the Inventor against the Investor
(aka the Boxing Ring for the Narcis- sist or
Conflicted)
Scams by the Investor against the Inventor (a.k.a. the Bait and Switch)
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