#1 – Notebooks for iPad – Very stable, very simple, intuitive and gives you the look of a serious professional. Creatives will find it incredibly easy on the organization front. I use it for writing blog posts, taking notes, [...]
As Entrepreneur In Residence at the Entrepreneur Center, I see pitches every day.
A pitch for an iPad app. A pitch for a healthcare robot. One for a drink company, one for a drug and then one for a line of safety helmets. The list is long and extremely [...]
Much has been written about ideas. Very little has been written about properly collecting and framing them.
I had the honor of writing a book called “The Idea Frame” with Michael Burcham and John Murdock. If you’re an idea person and you [...]
If you’re an Entrepreneur/Idea Person living in Nashville and you’re looking for important Nashvillians to follow on Twitter, here are some very potent suggestions. Even if you don’t live in Nashville, you should follow them anyway.
These people are all in the Idea Business. Every day, all day long, they deal with new ideas [...]
In the music world you can tell you don’t like the music someone listens to by what they’re wearing. In the business world you can tell how serious someone is by their haircut/style. In the Idea Game you can’t tell anything by just looking…
People with the greatest ideas in the world dress like [...]
When you search “Blogs About Ideas” for “Apps For Idea People” one of the least discussed Apps is the most important tool every inventor, entrepreneur and idea person should always have with them. It should have simple and immediate access under most [...]
Guest blogger John Murdock. John is the Director of Communications and Programming at the Entrepreneur Center (EC) in Nashville, TN, where he helps entrepreneurs turn their ideas into investable businesses. Prior to joining the EC, John served as the Airport Manager for
As an idea person, inventor and product developer there are iPad apps to help you.
Some give you freedom to be more creative. Others solve problems you had no idea existed.
Here are 4 “Gotta Have” iPad apps that will give any idea person/inventor even more control over their creativity.
520,277. Holy smokes inventors were busy in 2010. A lot of those were applied for by large companies though.
If you’ve invented something and haven’t applied for a patent yet, don’t panic. You can apply for a provisional patent. It’s less expensive than a full-blown utility patent. And it lets everyone [...]
When I tell people I’m a product developer, they usually have no idea what I’m talking about. They ask “Does that mean you invent things or what?”.
Then, I say, “When I see a need, niche, problem or ‘pain’, I start working on a solution or remedy for it.” If they need an example I’ll [...]
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Scott Rouse
As the Entrepreneur In Residence at The Nashville Entrepreneur Center, I meet people with great ideas every day. Ideas for toys, medical devices, weapons and apps. And ideas for babies, sports, travel and pets. Most are truly great. Getting that great idea protected, prototyped and licensed or sold and into an analog or digital store is the goal. To do that you need to pitch that idea to licensees, Venture Capitalists and/or Angel Investors. Helping you learn to do that is the focus of the IdeaBang Blog.- About Scott Rouse
Grammy Nominated Record Producer - Serial Entrepreneur - Pitch Fixer - Entrepreneur In Residence at Nashville Entrepreneur Center - Advisor at FLO {thinkery}
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