I will send you my blessings. I hope that helps! :).
If I had money, and I knew your sytem could load games without loading times and without the words “loading…”, then you would have sold me. But good luck :)
Don’t talk to investors until you talk to a patent lawyer. Your intellectual property is all you have at this point, and you need to protect it. I also recommend incorporating before talking to the investors, as it makes it easier and smoother to deal with them and to arrange financing. It also helps with a bit with the credibility of your enterprise.
Once you are ready to talk to investors, you will need three things: Your own credentials, an explanation of the viability of your design, and a business plan. A business plan is not trivial, so you may need a partner to work with you on it if you are not confident about writing it yourself. Have non-disclosure agreements drawn up ahead of time, and make sure that they are signed up front by anyone you bring in to consult or help you on the project.
Have you thought about other applications of the design-idea you are developing? Often times you will want to file several related patent ideas at the same time, so that if it the idea can be translated to other uses you own the rights to those as well.
Last thought… downturns are usually good times to develop products, since they often take months or years to get to market anyway. Don’t let the economic slump deter you.
By the way, you can pick up basic non-disclosure forms at an office supply store, or in a basic small-business forms software package. Use them early and often — you will need to engage many people over the life of a project like this, and you need to be able to involve them without giving away the crown jewels.
i’ll invest in your computer if the computer can tell the winners of next months races…
you’re a graphic designer with no technological background and you want to try and conquer the netbook market yourself?
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It has already been done its called a blackberry. Unless you can make one the size of a ring your running way behind the rest of the inventors. Hope this helps :-)
tjwoods wrote:
Don’t talk to investors until you talk to a patent lawyer. Your intellectual property is all you have at this point, and you need to protect it. I also recommend incorporating before talking to the investors, as it makes it easier and smoother to deal with them and to arrange financing. It also helps with a bit with the credibility of your enterprise.
Once you are ready to talk to investors, you will need three things: Your own credentials, an explanation of the viability of your design, and a business plan. A business plan is not trivial, so you may need a partner to work with you on it if you are not confident about writing it yourself. Have non-disclosure agreements drawn up ahead of time, and make sure that they are signed up front by anyone you bring in to consult or help you on the project.
Have you thought about other applications of the design-idea you are developing? Often times you will want to file several related patent ideas at the same time, so that if it the idea can be translated to other uses you own the rights to those as well.
Last thought… downturns are usually good times to develop products, since they often take months or years to get to market anyway. Don’t let the economic slump deter you.
Thanks so much for the advice :), it’s very helpful.
The Clue wrote:
It has already been done its called a blackberry. Unless you can make one the size of a ring your running way behind the rest of the inventors. Hope this helps :-)
Completely different type of device but thanks anyway.
hj wrote:
you’re a graphic designer with no technological background and you want to try and conquer the netbook market yourself?
Do you know me? LOL, I do graphic design in my spare time. Thanks for the reply.
Thanks to everyone who has responded so far :)
It is not a ‘black berry’ type device at all. It is a computer system, complete with it’s own OS that uses much less physical memory than other PCs yet has a greater capacity and costs much less to run.
I forgot that the mac has one the size of a cd with a lot of memory and now they have one comming out with the pc built into the monitor screen. Thats limits your options to the size, make it the size of a ring then you will have something. Hope this helps :-)
LOL…thanks but this design is not a typical PC configuration. Current PC designs don’t really compare because they have severe memory limitations compared to what I am creating. Further my design does not depend on physical hardware such as the hard drive that can become damaged. Really I can’t talk about it but thanks for the reply.
If your not using any mechanical parts then your going into bio genetics, using living matter to replace the mechanical parts (Like on Star Trek) It would take a lot of work tho and I do believe that the scientists across the world have started that also. If you have a good idea to speed up the process to achieving AI it would probably make you rich. :-)
Barbyman wrote:
i’ll invest in your computer if the computer can tell the winners of next months races…
LOL…that would be nice wouldn’t it? No, this will be faster, with much, much more memory but it will not be able to predict the future. At least not in a direct way..maybe if you knew enough variables about the horses it could come up with some nice predictions but never with 100% accuracy over time ;). We’d need a good old fashioned time machine for that.
Listen approach Apple ,or Microsoft ,be careful and make sure you patent provisional .That means your idea doesn’t have to work just yet.See if they are interested.I would approach them .They started like you do.
The Clue wrote:
If your not using any mechanical parts then your going into bio genetics, using living matter to replace the mechanical parts (Like on Star Trek) It would take a lot of work tho and I do believe that the scientists across the world have started that also. If you have a good idea to speed up the process to achieving AI it would probably make you rich. :-)
You make allot of assumptions. It has nothing to do with Bio Genetics and has no living parts. :) Yet it will make strides in creating a true AI.
Barbyman wrote:
Listen approach Apple ,or Microsoft ,be careful and make sure you patent provisional .That means your idea doesn’t have to work just yet.See if they are interested.I would approach them .They started like you do.
I’ve thought of it. The problem is that a P patent only protects me up to a year and that isn’t enough time I don’t think. I need a software partner that I can trust to help me write the code, test and debug and if I take just the concept to Microsoft or Apple I don’t think they would find it too difficult to steal. If they offered to buy it I would refuse because I’m pretty sure they would be trying to bury it like other industries have done with competitive concepts (Oil) and they probably wouldn’t be offering enough to make it worth giving up several billion if I take the long road. Thanks for your reply!
You do know this is already being done, right? You need to search some of the newer articles from intel. There not going just the PC route either, intel is starting to resize the server industry as well.
There a 4 GB chips coming out that are about the size of a quarter, and they are starting to use mini SATA in servers.
Look at the Mac Mini, about the size of your hand, and that is old technology.
None of those systems are really competitors. They all have the same basic limitation: they can not be scaled down into the nanocosm. As far as I know my design is the only to date that will still function with nanoscale memory media without loss of memory capacity. Intel and Apple don’t scare me. Thanks for you reply!
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