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    Inventing: A Beginner's Guide
    Inventing: A Beginner's Guide
    Inventing: A Beginner's Guide
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    Inventing: A Beginner's Guide

    By Kian Harvey

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    This book is a short guide aimed at helping first-time inventors take their first steps in the world of inventing.
    Written in layman's terms by an inventor, for inventors.
    Learn how to stop just thinking about your inventions and put them into action.
    I explain how I did it, on a shoestring budget and using easy to follow tips and ideas that you can use to further your invention.
    This is not a get-rich-quick book.
    It's just the story of how I got my inventions to market along with a full explanation of everything I did along the way.
    Read, copy, do!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKian Harvey
    Release dateDec 12, 2014
    ISBN9781311226730
    Inventing: A Beginner's Guide

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      Book preview

      Inventing - Kian Harvey

      The Small B.I.G.

      Beginner Inventor’s Guidebook

      Copyright 2013 Kian Harvey

      Published by Kian Harvey at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents -

      Chapter 1 - Foreword

      Chapter 2 - The Idea

      Chapter 3 - Using Patent Databases

      Chapter 4 - The Next Step

      Chapter 5 - Protecting Your Idea

      Chapter 6 - Making Contact

      Chapter 7 - My Path To A Licensing Deal

      Chapter 8 - Extra's

      Chapter 1 - Foreword

      My day job of diesel mechanic in the transport and heavy equipment industries means I have to often be inventive just to get through the day.

      Things don’t always go the way the textbooks say they should.

      After years of working in this manner I found time and again that I was using my own ideas to solve problems in everyday situations.

      At some point (I can’t remember when exactly) I began jotting these ideas down in a notebook, drawing simple diagrams, perhaps even then in the back of my mind thinking Hmmm, maybe there are people out there who might find these ideas interesting, maybe even want to buy them!.

      And so, after yet another few years I decided to take one of these ideas and try to turn it into a marketable product.

      It was then that I discovered this other world, the world of the inventor, and I didn’t like it one bit!

      Let me just jump to the present tense for a moment.

      I am what I would call a semi-professional inventor.

      I have managed to bring a couple of inventions to market and I have made a small amount of income from these. I am certainly not rich and am still running my small repair business like I was before I started inventing.

      I’m still working on more inventions and hopefully one day all my efforts will allow me to stop working altogether.

      So, what makes me qualified to guide other beginner inventors to success you might think?

      Actually, nothing qualifies me to do this, but it is a fact that I am one of the 1-2% of private inventors that actually succeed in getting a product to market and making some money.

      Think about that for a minute, hundreds of thousands of patents applied for every year by private inventors and just a handful that make some kind of return for the inventor.

      That is why I have written this short guide.

      Unlike many other inventor books it’s not going to explain to you how to make millions with your inventions.

      This is practically impossible to teach in a book because to make millions requires inventing something that is actually worth millions, which I would go and do myself if I had such an invention.

      Nor am I going to rabbit on about the complexities of patent law or other such fields which require the services of experts.

      It is also apparent to me that many inventor books seem to be based around inventing for consumers, by this I mean toy inventions, gadget inventions, child care inventions and the like, and

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