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“Inventrepreneurship”
Paul Ingram | Ingram Labs, Inc.

In•ven•tre•pre•neur
| inˈventrəprəˈnoŏr; -ˈnər |
Noun.
A person who invents a particular process, program or gadget, taking on
greater than normal personal risk in order to see it work.

How many of you
have ideas for
products, services,
tools?

Do them.

Do them.
The end.

Where do ideas
come from?
When two people love each other
They hug for a really long time
...

We all have ideas.
They happen to us.

Most ideas are worth
a little more thought
than we give them.

Flash backs
™

“Ideas won’t keep.
Something must be
done about them.”
— Alfred North Whitehead, 1938

Doing something
about them.
1.Get your head in the right place.
2.Prototype your idea.
3.Recruit a team.
4.Launch. Build. Tweak.
5.Next?

1. Get your head
in the right place.

1. Get your head in the right place.
Where do ideas go?
Too hard
.
Won’t work. Been done.
pid.
Stu

“If I have a
thousand ideas
and only one
turns out to be
good, I am
satisfied.”
— Alfred Bernhard Nobel

“ Even in literature and art, no man
who bothers about originality will
ever be original; whereas if you
simply try to tell the truth (without
caring twopence how often it has
been told before) you will, nine
times out of ten, become original
without ever having tried.”
— C.S. Lewis

2. Prototype your
idea.

Artsy
Ideas
Brand
2. Prototype your idea.
Information Architecture
Visual Design
Usability
HTML / Markup
CSS
JavaScript / AJAX / DOM
Code
XML / Web Services
The civil union.
Data Model
Platform
Ideas
Geeky

3. Recruit a team.

3. Recruit a team with no money.
1
The Idea
Private 2
Virtual
Owner
3
(Inventor)
Team
(coder,
%
%
designer, etc)
Partnership 6
Direct
Costs
(labor,
Agrees to % purchases,
etc.)
after subtracting...
Provides vision, skills,
Provides skills
leadership & footwork
5
Invention License, Sale,
Conceives, researches & plans the idea. or Acquisition
Determine needed resources & recruit a team
Production
Based on drawings, docs, research,
the team produces a launch-able product.
is...
Revenue
Any money generated by license fees,
sales or company/product acquisition.
Royalty Distribution Product
Team members or outside labor and other
Launch
costs are subtracted from Revenue and
distributed based on previously agreeed upon
4
percentages.

4. Launch. Build
Tweak.

4. Launch. Build. Tweak.
Bet
a
Be
ta
ta
Be
beta
Expose
your work.

“ Almost all really new
ideas have a certain
aspect of foolishness
when they are first
produced.”
— Alfred North Whitehead

4. Launch. Build. Tweak.
Rapid Iterative
Prototyping
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4. Launch. Build. Tweak.
Building live
guarantees a launch
date.
Even if know one
knows about it.

5. Next?

How many of you
have ideas for
products, services,
tools?

What works for you?

Do it.

Do it.
The end.

Do it.
The end.
Paul Ingram / Ingram Labs, Inc.
paul@ingramlabs.com