If you’re an inventor, you might only experience that transformative certainty once or twice in a lifetime, but its impact can be huge. Think of the zipper, Velcro, Bluetooth, or Instagram. Every one of these revolutionary inventions began with a strong, yet simple idea.
However, the moment of invention also comes loaded with panic. What do you do first? How do you move from concept to prototype? How do you fund that process? How long will it take before someone else has the same idea? Perhaps they already have – how do you find out?