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The Benefits of Starting Your Own Business vs. Licensing Your New Product
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The Benefits of Starting Your Own Business vs. Licensing Your New Product » Pivot International According to the SBA (Small Business Association), approximately 600,000 new businesses are started each year. Even with all the associated risk and the hard work, there’s something that draws people toward starting their own small business. There must be some great advantages in starting up your ...

We had a great presentation tonight by Mr. Barry Cole, CEO & Founder of "The Radar Shop". Barry shared with us his journey from an invention to a successful business.
"A business is worth more than an idea" is something most inventors don't realize.

You can see the full presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsaaIGXJ89k&fbclid=IwAR3SBAoZTL6nAJhI9piF1Zx7AV6tE2JrPCk8rx7eUhy8VW3APgmP1F7lxuA

Our new website is up and running. Go check it out at https://www.inventkansas.org/
Also, don't forget to RSVP for our next meeting on Monday, September 28 at 6 PM. We will be meeting in person, but we will have an option for participants to join online via Zoho meeting software
https://meeting.zoho.com/meeting/join?key=1093761788

Learning about and their amazing technology. They developed W**d cutting bots to keep farms completely chemical free. Check out their website https://www.greenfieldrobotics.com/

August Board of Directors meeting tonight with a few members missing.

Join us on August 24th at 6pm CST to learn more about turning an innovative idea into a successful business.

Clint Bauer and Steve Castro-Miller will present about challenges of turning an idea into a business, and what to do to mitigate the risk. They will reflect on Greenfield Robotics, and how the company started out of an idea, and how it grew to the stage it’s currently in.
After the presentation we will have a Q/A session where Steve and Clint will answer any further questions by InventKansas members.

Location: GoCreate facility at WSU, room #264
Time: Monday, August 24th at 6PM

Inventing exercize: list 5 products that are a pain to clean after use (you can share them here).

Throughout the day, consider how one or more of them could be improved to ease the task.

IASCK (Inventors Association of South Central Kansas) is now InventKansas. Follow for news and local events related to inventing.