Empowered Inventing TV

What’s the first thing you should do when you come up with a great idea for a product or business? Don unpacks why it’s important to translate your ideas into written words, and what it does for your progress. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Are you ever frustrated that your idea just isn’t going anywhere? Don walks you through 5 ways NOT to be a “Dirt Farmer” with your idea for a product or business. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Are tradeshows, meetings and in-person conferences making a comeback? Don talks about this question and relates his experiences of the last few months. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Are you an inventor or entrepreneur that has so many ideas that you don’t know which one you should be working on? Don reveals some strategies for how you should be looking at it. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Don pays a visit to a makerspace in 2016, and tells the story of the Bootstrap Prototype. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

How worried should you be about someone stealing your idea? Don talks you through how to sort out the healthy concerns from the debilitating fears. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Are there certain tradeshows that present unique opportunities for inventors & entrepreneurs? Don relates his recent experience of watching just that the National Farm Machinery Show. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the idea of a competitor-dominated industry? Don shares the strategy and successes of prolific inventor Bill Elam, and how he found “riches in niches” of overlooked opportunities. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Who do you find yourself spending the most time with? Don gives his advice on why the people – and content - you hang around with can greatly impact the success or failure of your product or business. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Are you putting the “Jelly” of your product or business on the bottom shelf so everybody can reach it? Don shows you 7 ways you can be putting them on the “bottom shelf” to make them accessible. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? Join our inventor community at https://www.kyinventors.org See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

When you’re ready to launch your product or business, have you prepared to “Cut the Rope”? Don unpacks the lessons behind the story of inventor Elisha Otis, who used cutting a rope to create an impression with customers and change an industry. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

– Is your idea for a product or business stuck in the crazy cycle? Don walks you through the many ways you can get stuck “doing the same thing with bad results”, and how to break that cycle. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Most people don’t know that back in the 1880’s, electric cars dominated the market. Don tells the story of this once normal car market, and why it’s important for inventors & entrepreneurs in the 21st century. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

How do you mark the actual progress of your idea, product or business? Don talks about how to measure your progress in ways that will make you more proactive about reaching your goals. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Sometimes inventors & entrepreneurs have great ideas only to see them crash and burn because of bad business relationships. Don shares 7 ways to have good relationships, and how to avoid the toxic ones. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Every inventor or entrepreneur wants to have a product that everyone wants to buy. But how do you develop that product that’s going to fly off the shelves? Don reveals some must-haves in order to make your product one customers can’t get soon enough. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Have you ever been scammed or just had a hard fail? Don walks you through how to not let hard fails define you, and how you can bounce back. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Are you a “Trophy” patent holder? Don gives his advice if you find yourself with a trophy patent, what to do about it and how to avoid it. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

So how do the real professional and successful inventors build their prototypes? The answer may surprise you! Don tells the story of the “world’s oldest fabric” and how it’s use is still the basis for professional prototyping today. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Most people think of technology transfer in the way that stuffy universities use it. Don shows how you can creatively use a different kind of “technology transfer” to innovate the next big idea for your product or business. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Love can be a wonderful thing when it applies to other people, but can it get in the way of the progress of your idea? Don unpacks how to look at what can be a problem and how to look at it in the right way. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

At some point every inventor or entrepreneur gets to a place where they just feel stuck. Don walks you through 7 ways for you to keep on track to move your idea towards a real product or business. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Could the idea for your next big product or business be hiding in 20-year-old tech? Don talks about how the computer mouse was once an almost forgotten technology, and how finding hidden gems like this can be used today. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

Are you one of those inventors or entrepreneurs that are looking for a big win with your idea for a product or business? Don reveals the principles behind getting to that big goal without turning it into a big fail. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com

How can you win a pitch competition, even when you lose? Don shares often overlooked opportunities at a pitch competition that can give you IRL wins for your product or business. Need help with your idea for a product or startup? See all the courses, coaching and more at https://www.empoweredinventing.com