Monday 30 August 2010

Simple Ideas

After watching Dragons Den and discussing the three sides of this duvet idea with my family about how simple it is, it became apparent that members in my family have also had some really good ideas in the past. But they never followed any of them through.

If only they had known or had the impetus to make their ideas into a business: My Granddad apparently made his own caravan and entered it into a competition, but was denied entry as the competition judges were not convinced that he had not made it, but were instead interested in his folding table for the gas cookers. Which were put into the caravanning news etc. and is now a standard design and general purchase of every camper!

But he did not patent it or have any knowledge of Intellectual Property. My Dad has many ideas which he has seen come to life and be invested in by the dragons. The point I am trying to make is that everyone will come up with at least one idea whether through adversity, frustration, chance or by merely by being observational. People need to know about Intellectual Property and make their ideas work for them. However, not everyone is an entrepreneur and therefore ideas don’t always come to the market – like my Dad!

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