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Inventor's Resources


The web-sites listed below are usually seemed a bit too complex for the first-time inventors; however once you get into inventor's basics, it will be very beneficial to visit them periodically for the latest news, upcoming events and educational material.


* United Inventors Association, www.uiausa.com – inventor’s educational content, forum, list of manufacturers, expert’s advices…

* "Inventor's Digest" magazine, www.inventorsdigest.com. Lots of useful information, inventors' news, events calendar, classifieds and much more. Good place to be to keep yourself in inventor's state of mind.

* United States Patent and Trademark Office - www.uspto.gov.

* National Inventor Fraud Center, practical information about patenting, marketing and other. http://www.inventorfraud.com

* Web-site for entrepreneurs and inventors www.tenonline.org made by Ed Zimmer: articles about registering your idea, licensing, links to manufacturers and more (most of them were written 10-20 years ago, but still work).

* Also, there is a quite interesting yet full of fun web-site of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, http://web.mit.edu/invent, check ‘invention dimension’ section.

Additional Material:

* Some tips about Inventor-Into-Entrepreneur transformation process in “4-hour-work-week” book written by Tim Ferriss, www.fourhourworkweek.com. Fantastic lifestyle, testing tools, entrepreneur resources, and a lot more! A must read!

Dear Friends! If you have any trusted and interesting resources - websites or books related to our project- please leave the links and description via comments.

Entrepreneur’s Resources



Business Owner’s Manuals

http://www.toolkit.com

www.nolo.com


Form a Company
– contact your local Secretary of State to acquire a company’s name and Tax ID (e.g. for New York - http://www.dos.state.ny.us/corp/filing.html). Depending on particular state filing fees vary from 100- to 200$. Check www.nolo.com ‘s resource section to choose a kind of business formation (LLC, Corps, partnership) that matches your needs and purposes more. Be advised to use accountant’s help.


Manufacturers’ List:

www.thomasnet.com

http://www.industrynet.com


Financing:

It is always better to contact your local bank where you have personal checking account, and negotiate your new company’s financing with them. Try also:

www.businessfinance.com


Ad Campaign:

At Google: www.adwords.google.com

At Yahoo: www.searchmarketing.yahoo.com

Web-traffic Analyst – www.google.com/analytics

Search Engine Marketing Learning Center – www.sempo.org


Your personal virtual cashier:

Google Checkout: http://checkout.google.com/sell/

PayPal: www.paypal.com


Websites - registration and hosting:

www.hostmonster.com

www.bluehost.com

Both sites include free domain name, search engines credits, and some other bonus features…

Blog registration:

www.blogger.com , www.wordpress.com , www.typepad.com – easy to set up and customize, free and paid blogging. Also there is a great solution “to share the passion you have” via www.squidoo.com lenses – a free marketing platform.

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