One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00E4I0ZT0 | Format: PDF
One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work Description
For as long as you can remember, you've had a dream. You've longed to see your product idea come to fruition so you never have to work for anyone else again.
Stephen Key has been living this dream for 30 years. The developer of such lucrative products as Michael Jordan's WallBall?, the Spinformation? rotating label, and HotPicks? guitar picks, he knows better than anyone how to make a great living as an entrepreneur. Key develops ideas for new products, licenses them out, collects royalty checks, and doesn't look back. You can do it, too. All you need is One Simple Idea. In this book, Key reveals the secrets that helped him and thousands of his students - including best-selling author Tim Ferriss - turn their creativity into a passive income generator by "renting" an idea to a company, which takes care of R&D, production, marketing, sales, accounting, distribution, and everything else you don't want to do.
You'll be amazed at how simple the process of licensing an idea for profit actually is. Key explains how to:
- Keep your ideas safe - without spending time and money on a patent.
- Be your own boss - without formally opening a business.
- See your product go to market - without footing a dime in expenses.
- Make potentially big money - without quitting your day job.
The age-old business assumption that ideas must come from within organizations has been shattered. From global corporations to small businesses, companies have become so confident in outside entrepreneurs that licensing is now a $500 billion industry. Businesses need "freelancers" like Key - and you - to provide creative, marketable ideas for new offerings.
With One Simple Idea, there's no prototyping, no patents, and, best of all, no risk. You can make the system work for you - rather than the other way around.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 8 hours and 27 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
- Audible.com Release Date: July 24, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00E4I0ZT0
I really like this book because it has opened up a whole new avenue for me, and showed me with simple descriptions all the areas where I was doing it wrong. I almost felt stupid that I did not know about provisional patents. I thought the only way to protect your ideas was the traditional patent route, and the 10-20 thousand dollars that route can cost. I did not know that a simple provisional patent, that can be filed for $110 would give me even more protection than a patent the first year I filed it. And that I could get a company to pay for my patent when they license my idea! How can you not love this book?
Stephen Key walks you through the steps of taking your idea from birth all the way through getting some company to send you royalty checks every quarter. You come up with the idea, then follow the steps laid out to getting paid for that idea. You do not need to have really brilliant ideas either. A simple product improvement can be licensed. A manufacturing change can be licensed. A procedure change can be licensed. The list is pretty endless in regards to what you can do. Can you take an existing product, change it slightly, and use it for some other non-related use? Yes you can, and you can get paid to do it!
Here is how this book will help me. I started writing ideas down in a small five inch notebook on may 4, 2004. I date all the ideas, my memory is not that good. I have 7 of these notebooks filled with ideas, changes, upgrades, etc. I take notes on a voice recorder in my car because ideas always pop in my head while I am driving. I know a lot of people get ideas in the shower, but I was on a nuclear submarine a long time ago and got in the habit of taking very fast showers because we can't waste water.
One Simple Idea is a practical, real-world guide that will help you take your ideas and get them to market with minimum investment of time and money. It is a great read that motivates the creative genius inside to think outside of the box, dream big, and get paid for it. One Simple Idea is a 5 star book and a steal for anyone interested in turning ideas into cash.
Part 1 focuses on how nice it will be once your ideas pay off and you are earning extra income.
"Find Your Million-Dollar Idea" (Part 2) really kicks off the valuable information in the book. This section offers great advice on what makes an idea valuable and marketable. Key emphasizes simplicity and how small ideas can make big money. While this part is good, I think it's also the weakest section in the book. Key only offers three creative thinking methods to come up with ideas . . . each just a paragraph long. He focuses on other idea generation methods that are simpler, but creative thinking techniques can unlock tons of great ideas in my experience. Going in depth here would make this book too long, but it would have been nice to include some additional recommendations for idea generation. For a book that is really strong in this area, check out Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition). It makes a great companion to One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work
Also in Part 2, Key gives an "idea litmus test" (70-73) to measure the ideas that you dream up.
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