Millions from the Mind: How to Turn Inventions (Yours or Someone Else's into Fortunes) - Hardcover

Tripp, Alan R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814450253 ISBN 13: 9780814450253

Publisher: AMACOM, 1992

Synopsis

Explains how to take an invention from concept to drawing board to market, and includes numerous case studies, interviews, and exhibits

About this title

From the Author

How do some people actually turn their ideas, their inventions into a million dollars or more? What are the key moves made by the winners? What are the pitfalls and mistakes of judgment that bring down the losers? How does it apply to you?

This book brings you the true stories of dozens of innovators who met the million-dollar minimum or more. What they did right gives you a documentary picture of the "do's." And, to illustrate the "don't's," I've included a few sad but true stories of potentially big winners that bombed. Some stories are old enough to be classics; some are brand new examples added to this Second Edition of Millions from the Mind.

To these case histories I've added a large helping of practical actions for commercializing your innovation, all based upon my own twenty-plus years of guiding inventions from the first trickle of an idea to a big revenue stream. Not surprisingly, you will find a bit of bias in favor of the independent inventor.

In addition to optimism and sheer doggedness, converting an invention from a great idea into a flow of cash often requires a real entrepreneur. Esprit, elan, and invincible belief are always valuable. But they are not enough. So, if you yourself are an inventor, a discoverer, a creative idea person, inside or outside of a big corporation, read ahead and enjoy vicariously the successes of others and store away in your memory the imaginative ways they broke through the barriers.

If you are a corporate executive whether in management, marketing or research you'll find clues here for getting the best results from the creative minds within your own company as well as managing the risks of new inventions without upsetting the entire Board of Directors.

About the Author

Alan R. Tripp has been an inventor and a businessman who commercialized other people's inventions. He has also been a songwriter, a broadcaster, and an advertising executive and is currently a non-fiction writer and an advisor to inventors. Mr. Tripp has also served on the Emerging Company Investment Committee of the Ben Franklin Technology Partnership of Philadelphia.

As founder and president of New York-based Product Resources International, Alan worked for 22 years with individual inventors and small laboratories to develop their discoveries and inventions into business opportunities. The commercialization efforts were specifically tailored to each inventor and invention and included start-up companies, licensing (sometimes to multiple licensees), and joint ventures.

A few of the invention commercializations Alan was involved in are the RCA RecorDrama Album (one of his own inventions); Mighty Milk (the first low-fat, high protein, vitamin added dairy product) he assisted in creating and marketing for Abbotts Dairy and Fairmount Foods; Os-Cal Chewable Calcium tablets (a Marion Laboratories product); and the Endless Pool with a running current that lets you "swim in place." Those stories and more, and, of course, the lessons learned, are documented as first-hand accounts in the pages of Alan's book.

Edition details

• Publisher: AMACOM
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814450253
• ISBN 13: 9780814450253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306