If you would provide an email address, or another way to get in touch with you -- outside this public forum -- I can give you pointers on how to go about this. I have a lot of experience in this area. You are in a unique position in that you have an idea that you believe works -- based on prototypes -- but you lack a business case and at the moment a complete product. What you need to do is basically show people that this is not just an idea and that it is feasible to move forward with this. I understand that you've built a prototype and have a patent but that it is still not engineering proven -- which makes it risky.
There are ways of further developing this, and marketing it to other companies as IP or as a dev kit with licensing/integration option.
You have to dot the i's and cross the tee's before someone will look at it as a viable technology. Doing so may not be as difficult as it seems depending on what you've done so far. To use a familiar analogy: think of it as having built an engine but only having a command line front-end, wrapping a GUI around it may not be technically difficult but it has to be done correctly from a UI perspective for your first demo to wow the user.
You are in a very good position since you've applied for a patent. That makes it easier to talk to other people. I'd also like to remind you to always get an NDA before talking in detail to anyone.
As I said, I'd like to get in touch with you to discuss this further or at least take up an hour or two of your time in exchange for $0.02 of advice.
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Hi Dennis, For some reason it shows your email as being private still... not sure why.
Dennis,
If you would provide an email address, or another way to get in touch with you -- outside this public forum -- I can give you pointers on how to go about this. I have a lot of experience in this area. You are in a unique position in that you have an idea that you believe works -- based on prototypes -- but you lack a business case and at the moment a complete product. What you need to do is basically show people that this is not just an idea and that it is feasible to move forward with this. I understand that you've built a prototype and have a patent but that it is still not engineering proven -- which makes it risky.
There are ways of further developing this, and marketing it to other companies as IP or as a dev kit with licensing/integration option.
You have to dot the i's and cross the tee's before someone will look at it as a viable technology. Doing so may not be as difficult as it seems depending on what you've done so far. To use a familiar analogy: think of it as having built an engine but only having a command line front-end, wrapping a GUI around it may not be technically difficult but it has to be done correctly from a UI perspective for your first demo to wow the user.
You are in a very good position since you've applied for a patent. That makes it easier to talk to other people. I'd also like to remind you to always get an NDA before talking in detail to anyone.
As I said, I'd like to get in touch with you to discuss this further or at least take up an hour or two of your time in exchange for $0.02 of advice.
-Arvin