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				<title><![CDATA[almost anything can be learned.&]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[almost anything can be learned.&nbsp; things to consider:
1.&nbsp; how much EXTRA time do we have to learn something else new,2.&nbsp; how content are we to use mediocre new skills.
I`ve learned to cook well enough to keep from starv]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[There`re big ideas and then ther]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[There`re big ideas and then there`re smaller ones.&nbsp; It is important to assess the size of the market before patenting an invention.&nbsp; Wise inventors address huge problems.The current patent system allows an inventor at least a year to test]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Very true James, very true. That]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Very true James, very true. That`s where pulling together a team with
strengths to compensate for your weaknesses becomes so important. 

Sadly it seems that many people exhaust their funds perfecting the
invention. Then they have nothing left ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Those who can, do.&nbsp; Inventi]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Those who can, do.&nbsp; Inventing and marketing are two sets of skills, though.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I`m seeing Innovator`s reference]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I`m seeing Innovator`s reference the same way. If you have an idea,
then you get a patent, THEN you try to sell the whole shebang to
someone else, it`ll likely be unsuccessful.

So I`m wondering---if you have this idea and you think it`s great,]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I read that quote to mean that y]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I read that quote to mean that you are better off gambling that having success with an invention marketing company - and I agree.&nbsp; I do not agree that you are better off gambling that having success with a well written patent for a product in demand.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Excerpt from an IEEE article on ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from an IEEE article on patent:"Lawrence Kamm, IEEE Life Senior Member, is a 
			consulting electro-mechanical engineer in San Diego, owner of 38 
			patents, an expert witness, and author of a book called “Adventures 
			of an Enginee]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Back when I was programming (see]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Back when I was programming (seems so long ago and far away now) I
would tell junior team members to "tackle the unknowns first." Any
major project contained parts that they knew how to do and parts they
didn`t; the knowns and the unknowns. There`s no p[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Steve, that`s a great thought...]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Steve, that`s a great thought...about execution.

Couldn`t we say that proof of concept sort of automatically builds into
it that execution? In other words, by way of example, suppose I have an
idea for how to make a pig that falls apart at the]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
spending all your time in mark]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
spending all your time in market research with your
customers may get you nowhere. How can they possibly tell you they want
something that doesn`t exist yet?
Reminds me of something Henry Ford said]]></description>
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