I have started the process of getting secure access to my patentportfolio on the US patents web site… what a glorious pain in the rear this is…1. Get an ID number (by mail with apdf form to fill out) 2. Get a notorized application for a PKI certificate… more mail and pain 3. Use two seperate passwords emailed or physicallly mailed to obtain the initial PKI certificate authentication…
All this, when I can fill out one form and have a password mailed to me by most banks to do wire transfers of over 100k per transaction! What a nightmare…
June 30, 2006
Getting a working model with this project is a little harder than expected… sequencing is the current issue… do you post to the newsgroup or to the blog first… there are pros and cons… posting to the newsgroup first makes it easy but the formatting is quirky….
June 30, 2006
The most amazing soccer skills I have ever seen
It takes a few moments… the guy warms up then… magic.
June 25, 2006
laird and teaupoo
Yes.. it includes THE wave of the decade…
June 25, 2006
One of the most entertaining commentators on the computer industry and so often on point, but in the case of his latest article regarding Microsoft:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060615.html
I have to disagree. When you look at Bill Gates’ background for example in excellent books like Hard Drive, it is easy to see that internal innovation IS NOT part of the master plan. From buying in DOS and loaning the Mac Interface, the talent always has been in seeing what customers will want and moving quickly to deliver a finished product to the customer as quickly as possible at minimal cost… even if that means not paying some people who should really and legally be paid!
To say, as he does, that Mr Gates is getting in the way of innovation at MS is to say you do not understand how the whole business operates..
June 21, 2006
How irritating, just spent 1/2 an hour trying to find the book where I got this great idea… so you all know I’m not pulling this out of the ether. Not one listing on Google… how weird… anyway the basic message is this… how to present a position is as follows:
1. What is the problem? (KISS)
2. What is needed to solve the problem
3. IT- present the idea in tangible form
4. Pros/ Cons/ options
5. Next Steps
I’ve had many a standup argument that documentation far surpasses mockups and what many call smoke and mirrors, but the bottom line is paperwork never captures the imagination, but something that a person could relate to as being a real working prototype will always do a better job… its the epitome of suspension of belief, helping a person jump the gap between what is and what could be.
So on this note, I vow to do a working mockup whenever I can afford the time to do one.
June 20, 2006
Just toying with the idea of using GoogleGroups as Blog and Mailing list agregator… the basic idea is send to a google group and enter blog submission email addresses (both internal and external) as subscribers.
The Result…. Enter one place and remail multiple places and enter from anywhere. Ill report how this works out in a week or so…
June 14, 2006
An old friend once outlined this process to me and it has been pretty fundamental for over two decades for me now… although it really works for smaller and consumer oriented products the idea seems to be relatively similar to running out much larger projects:
1. Concept on paper
2. Rough prototype
3. Legal - trademark, patent prov
4. Working model
5. Promotion/ user assessment
6. Small direct retail selling
7. Local promotion/ trade show
8. Distribution
9. Regional promotion
10. Exit - sell
My personal business process has grown a lot more then this, but the basic steps are consistent across much more applications than an inventor/ entrepreneur like myself.
June 14, 2006
