The document outlines 10 steps for physician inventors to get started and succeed: 1) Spend 20 hours researching passions and related industries; 2) Make connections in those industries through LinkedIn and Twitter; 3) Vision how technology will disrupt the industry and make predictions; 4) Create a simple website to communicate ideas; 5) Generate many ideas every weekend; 6) Dig into ideas and make PowerPoints to present to investors; 7) Organize research on the best ideas; 8) Prototype ideas early with online designers; 9) Find partners interested in ideas with NDAs; 10) Execute quickly and work on other ideas if facing roadblocks.

1. The Physician Inventor:
How to Get Started and
Succeed
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2. STEP ONE
Don’t leave your day job, but
“do spend” at least 20 hours a
week researching topics of
your passion.
Add all peripheral industries to main passion
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3. STEP TWO
Research these topics and
make connections, friends, and
colleagues with the people
that are making changes in
that industry
easiest = linkedin, twitter, etc...
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4. STEP THREE
Vision the future of that
industry as completely as
possible. Vision the role of
technology, devices, disruption
to the market.
Research these trends in detail and make your
own predictions of them.
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5. STEP FOUR
Learn how to make a simple
website for yourself and
spend time trying to
communicate with the
medium even if only to
yourself
i.e.. www.Weebly.com, www.blogger.com,
www.wordpress.com etc...
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6. STEP FIVE
Think of as many ideas as you
can and do this every
weekend. You should be able
to force a good idea out of
your passions every weekend.
Your best idea will not likely be your 50th or
even 100th
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7. STEP SIX
Dig into this idea, first explore
your own thoughts on the
idea and make a powerpoint
that you would present to a
potential investor.
does the gist of the idea resonate well? does the
execution of the idea flow? What are the
biggest obstacles?
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8. STEP SEVEN
Make a folder for this idea and
categorize the idea amongst
the others and now fill this
folder with research that is
related as it accumulates.
make folder on both evernote as well as on
project folder
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9. STEP EIGHT
Move to prototyping early
and often by finding someone
online that is a designer and
have them work with you to
prototype and animate your
ideas.
least expensive and quickest way to prototype
and communicate your ideas
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10. STEP NINE
Look first to find companies,
partners, people that might
care of your idea so that you
do not have to start from
scratch hopefully.
Try and get an NDA and communicate with
them as to their interest. remember an idea is
worthless without execution and you will need
help.
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11. STEP TEN
Now execute on the plan as
quickly as possible if you hit
road block, put it in pause
until you find a way around it
Meanwhile work on one of your other ideas
Repeat as needed until you have the right one
that hits all the right timing
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