Jim DeBetta is an Invention and Retail Product Specialist, and his company, DeBetta Enterprises helps entrepreneurs find retail homes for their products. Guess how long it takes to get a product on retail shelves?The answer may surprise you, but on average from the time a product is shown to a retail buyer until it is […]
Jackie Hutter has been recognized for the last ten years for her innovative insights in creating value from IP Strategy with the peer-awarded Top Global IP Strategist by Intellectual Asset Magazine. Ms. Hutter’s IP Strategy clients have been varied, and include a Fortune 500 consumer hardware company, a large alternative energy company, several funded medical
Kickstarter, and other crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo, have created an unprecedented level of access to funding for inventors, entrepreneurs, and start-ups. It’s easier than ever before to develop a new product, manufacture it, and launch it to market, but it’s also easier than ever before to make some huge mistakes, which can sink an otherwise
The internet gives us all greater access to Asian sourcing, but what are the dangers? I’ve been working with inventor-entrepreneurs and start-ups for fifteen years, and I’ve helped them innovate and develop products in all sorts of industries. Toys, tools, medical devices, consumer goods, professional equipment – if I took the time to think of
