Denver Business Journal Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 2:31pm MDT The DaVinci Institute, a Louisville-based futurist think tank, said Tuesday it has entered into a partnership with Edison Nation to fund promising inventors. Edison Nation, an outgrowth of the PBS series “Everyday Edisons,” is an online service that works to link inventors with retailers andContinue Reading

Louis Foreman discusses “Driving Sales of Every Day Inventions”

Company turns ideas into shelf-ready products.

BETSY RAVREBY KAUFMAN is a lot of things — a freelance television producer, a former anchor, a wife and mother, a resident of Houston. One thing she is not, she insists, is an inventor. “Let’s get that on the table right now,” she says. Which is why it’s so crazy — that’s her word —Continue Reading

A Sunday morning roundtable featuring Silicon Valley pioneers and top journalists from New York Times, TechCrunch, NPR and more. Edison Nation CEO Louis Foreman makes a business turning people’s ideas into real-life inventions.

NC Based Company, Edison Nation Announces $25 Million Dollar Innovation Fund to locate and develop New Inventions. Louis Foreman figures just about everyone has an idea for an invention, if not the time, money and expertise to pull it off. The Charlotte, North Carolina, entrepreneur wants to do something about that. His company announced onContinue Reading

Interview with Louis Foreman- Advocate of New U.S. Patent Reform

Louis’ new book now available in bookstores nationwide How do you actually turn a million-dollar idea into a million dollars? From scribble-on-the-napkin to product-on-the market, The Independent Inventor’s Handbook explains everything a potential inventor needs to know and the tools he or she needs to use to take a raw concept and turn it intoContinue Reading

Foreman, publisher of Inventors Digest magazine and producer of PBS’s Everyday Edisons, and patent attorney Welytok (Sarbanes-Oxley for Dummies) aim to walk inventors through the product-development process from the moment the proverbial light bulb appears over their head to the moment their brainchild arrives on the market. The authors cover product market research, design, developingContinue Reading

When light bulbs go on, questions come up Louis offers advice to new inventors in Popular Science. “Are Those Invention-helper Organizations Worth It?” Be careful of invention-marketing Web sites: the U.S. Patent Office lists complaints about 60 such sites that make money by exploiting inventors. That said, some of the best help you can getContinue Reading