It was January 1957, when an accidental entrepreneur, Walter Fredrick Morrison (“Fred”), sold the rights for the Pluto Platter (later known as the Frisbee) to the Wham-O toy company. (The name may have come from the Frisbie Baking Company.) As legend has it, Fred and his girlfriend were tossing a popcorn lid back and forth […]
It’s an interesting time in product invention and development. When a good idea comes to an inventor or entrepreneur, two opposite paths are being walked today. One is to guard the idea closely, the other is to spread the idea far and wide. The direction you choose depends on what kind of idea you have, […]
Watch one of the “hoarders” shows on cable TV and you get an glimpse of one home shopping niche market. The poor guys who have fallen into the hoarding lifestyle often don’t even get their merchandise out of the boxes. There’s even a pretty long discussion thread on the topic on the QVC community forum […]
A friend keeps Evernote handy on all of his mobile devices and computers. He has a list entitled “Ideas” where he captures new product or service concepts and inventions. Maybe a better place to direct some of those brainstorms is Quirky. Quirky is an amalgamation of ideas, inventions, development, marketing, venture capital and democracy. In […]
It was January 1957, when an accidental entrepreneur, Walter Fredrick Morrison (“Fred”), sold the rights for the Pluto Platter (later known as the Frisbee) to the Wham-O toy company. (The name may have come from the Frisbie Baking Company.) As legend has it, Fred and his girlfriend were tossing a popcorn lid back and forth […]