EmpoweredInventing

Have you experienced a lot of failures and just feel like giving up? Don shows you why failing can be a good thing, and how your approach to it can actually make them valuable. 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

Did you know that Alexander Graham Bell’s greatest invention was NOT the telephone? Don relates Bell’s invention that was 100 years ahead of its time, and how that applies to what you can do with an 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

Can it help you as an inventor/entrepreneur to sell other people’s stuff? Don talks you through the idea of giving you valuable market intel while giving you early revenue. 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

As an inventor or entrepreneur you should be watching QVC, but not for the reasons you probably think. Don gives his advice on how to use home shopping networks in a very unique yet valuable way. 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

So what’s a sure-fire way to make sure customers won’t buy your product? Don reveals the answer in this short about what make people actually deselect your product. 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

Is your product or startup still inside your own version of Schrodinger’s Box? Don revisits this very important concept that may be keeping you from taking an important next step 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

Can what you do really be “A Wonderful Life”? Don shares his take on a well-known Christmas movie, and why he believes it is, and how it can be for you. 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 conflicted between “someone’s going to steal my idea” and “I’ve got to get my product out to sell”? Don walks you through sorting out this conundrum by utilizing the power of a properly placed stealth strategy. 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

Was Amazon the first business model of it’s kind? Don tells the story of a precursor to it that may have just been ahead of its time. 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 do you avoid dealing with the bad characters that will ultimately cross your path during your inventing / entrepreneur journey? Don talks about what to look for, what to avoid and how to deal with the bad actors we’ll all encounter. 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

What drives you to get up in the morning? What makes you do the hard-work part of developing your product or business? Don shares an important truth about deciding whether to let discipline or motivation take the driver’s seat in your product, and your life. 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 using cannon balls or musket balls when you’re launching your product or business? Don unpacks the idea behind an ancient seafaring strategy that could make your product or business a success. 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

Can you come up with a game-changing idea by just paying attention? Don relates the strange invention journey of microwave oven inventor Percy Spencer, and when we should be paying attention to innovations hiding in plain sight. 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

Can you really launch a product or business without the hard-to-get & potential puppet-stings of venture capital? Don shows you 7 ways you can launch your idea without the drama of raising money. 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 know who you’ll be selling your idea, product or business to? Do you know what they really see when look at you? In this short Don give you some quick points on what your optics should be. 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 think that “everyone will be your customer”? Don dispels the myth that some inventors and entrepreneurs can fall into, and how to deal with this hard truth. 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 have so many ideas for a product or business that you don’t know which one to work on? Don talks you through the idea of “picking the fruit you can reach” to help you focus your energies in the right place. 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 “in the Arena”, or sitting on the sidelines? Don delivers a very significant message from 1910 to help you understand the importance of being in that very special Arena for inventors & entrepreneurs. 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 stuck still trying to “perfect” that one step in your inventing or entrepreneurial journey? Don lays out 7 important ways to identify and avoid this very destructive and paralyzing behavior. 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 really serious about your product or business, or are you just playing at it? Don reveals 5 ways to prove to yourself that you are serious enough to make yours a success. 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

There is one 7-word question that every product entrepreneur has to be able to answer. Don shows you what those 7 words are, and why it’s important to really be able to answer 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

Are you letting “shiny objects” literally hold you back from getting you to your next step? Don gives his advice on how to keep from using those fascinating distractions from tricking you into not following through. 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 do you keep your idea from dying in the woods? Don relates some “wilderness survival tips” to keep your idea literally alive and thriving. 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

Is your idea alive or dead? A product that everyone or no one will want? Don walks you through the thought experiment of Schrodinger’s Cat, and why you have to take your idea “out of the box” to know. 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

You could have the best idea in the world, but no one will believe you if you look like “that crazy inventor”. Don shares 5 things you should keep in mind so your optics match your validity. 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