It's back to Business Monday and I am really fired up with this article about 3D print IP loss. 3D print IP loss is a topic we are interested in, but this is also all about bad misinformation. The idea is that they are claiming that businesses are set to lose more than $100 billion by 2018 thanks to 3D printing. First off, there is nobody making money in 3D printing for that to even become somewhere close to accurate. While there are many industries where 3D printing … [Read more...]
How to Get Press for Your Business or Designs
Today we are going to talk about how to get press for your business or how to get press for your projects or your designs. Do it yourself exposure. I’ve seen many people spending a lot of money on PR firms because they think that's how to get press for your business the best way. The reality is that, it takes a huge chunk of budget to really get that kind of press at that kind of level. We’ve done it before, even back when we had our T-tools days, we used to spend a lot of money on … [Read more...]
Who to Talk to When You are Three Feet From Gold
This is a really fun subject on who to talk to when you are three feet from gold and this is one of my favorites. We spent some time talking to a lot of inventors groups, and we are about to embark on a 30 city tour over the country. As we have been going around these inventors groups, we have been finding that the problem with these is the mix of people. A lot of them are 12-step program support groups. There are a lot of grumpy and upset inventors that don’t understand and are frustrated with … [Read more...]
Attorney Client Communication is the Key for How to Get a Patent Quickly
We got a topic today that is one of my favorite on attorney client communication. This is important for any business, but especially for the 3D printing industry where there are so many businesses are involving some kind of intellectual property especially if it involves any patents. I know that the RepRap Movement really doesn’t like patents, and they don’t like it when companies use patents and hoard things to themselves. The reality is that intellectual property is a part of the … [Read more...]
Don’t Go Borrowing Trouble – How to Take the Next Step in Business and Stop Over Thinking
We've been coming back from a lot of trips and I've been hearing a lot of things and business questions from so many out there where they really actually borrowing trouble. A lot of people are in the early stages of start-ups and I'm getting a lot of cycles of thought from people that are going back and forth from settling on a name, to rethinking that, to going with another name, then going back to their first name choice. We are helping a lot of people in setting up their podcasts right now, … [Read more...]
3D Print Market Needs Gap Identification
It is back to business Monday and we have an episode coming up with MakerBots Drew Lentz that made us think of this topic for today where he mentions that there's a huge market needs gap between the education market in 3D printing of where the teachers are getting information today and where the information lies in the 3D print community. I would say it's more like a gulf or a cavern instead of a gap, but it's a really good point. Listen to the podcast here: 3D Print Market Needs Gap … [Read more...]