Stephen Key ... One Simple Idea

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Join Stephen Key, best selling author of One Simple Idea. Stephen will speak about licensing your ideas for royalties. One Simple Idea has been ranked #1 on Amazon Small Business Marketing for the past year and has over 130 – 5 Star reviews on Amazon as well. It has also been translated into five different languages.

Stephen will also discuss his new upcoming book One Simple Idea for Startups & Entrepreneurs. In his new book he will teach you how to bring an idea to market yourself through venturing.
Stephen just recently sold his company and patent portfolio. Find out how he did it and where he goes from here.

In response to a “jobless recovery,” millions of Americans are getting in touch with their inner entrepreneur, choosing to create their own luck. Too often, the path to business success for individuals is scattered with obstacles: the need for funding and the challenges of building supply, manufacturing, and distribution chains, just to name a few. However, thanks to such trends as “open innovation,” in which companies outsource new product development and other key functions, it is easier than ever for innovators to bring their ideas to market.
Few people today understand this better than Stephen Key, who has successfully licensed products in the toy, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries, among others, that have generated billions of dollars in revenue worldwide. In One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work. Key provides a step-by-step guide on how anyone can invert the relationship between corporations and individuals by getting them to work for you. Central to Key’s blueprint for aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs is for them to use their creativity to produce income by “renting” their ideas to interested businesses. Taking readers through all phases of product innovation and development, Key explains the entrepreneurial system he has used to generate wealth without fronting and raising capital or becoming involved in time-consuming product development tasks.
Key’s mission is to foster the spirit and practice of invention while educating, empowering, and inspiring independent and professional innovators. One Simple Idea’s unique, user-friendly handbook to patenting and licensing advances this goal by explaining to readers how to:
• Be your own boss without formally opening a business or quitting your day job

• Protect your idea without spending time and money on a patent

• Develop a strategy that fits perfectly into your business plan

• Present your invention to companies and negotiating the best deal
• Select appropriate manufacturers and finding optimal markets with expansive opportunities

• Witness your product go to market without footing a dime in expenses.
Anyone who has ever daydreamed of an outrageous new product or brainstormed a sure-fire way to improve a service that already exists has the innovation gene. In One Simple Idea, Key delivers the direction, know-how, and motivation to help you present and profit from your idea(s)!

BIO

Stephen Key is a successful award-winning inventor, author and entrepreneur, having licensed over 20 products in the past 30 years. A holder of over thirteen patents, Stephen’s products have sold in Wal-Mart, 7 Eleven, Disney Stores and theme parks worldwide and have been endorsed by basketball great Michael Jordan and Jeopardy host Alex Trebek. Stephen’s innovative Spinformation rotating label has been licensed for use on many products including a product called Accudial. Accudial shows parents how to dose their child’s liquid medication by weight versus traditional age, making it more accurate. Stephen is also a member of the Board of Directors of Accudial Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Accudial also recently purchased Stephen’s entire patent portfolio for the Rotating Label. Accudial is the recipient of the Product of the Year Award for Canada as well as a Gold winner at the 2011 Edison Awards. Accudial has also recently won the 2011 New Product Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan as well as the PTPA Seal of Approval. One of Stephen’s other products, Soyu Natural Teas also took a Bronze at the 2011 Edison Awards.
Stephen’s book One Simple Idea teaches people how to bring their own ideas to market through licensing. One Simple Idea has been ranked #1 on Amazon Small Business Marketing for the past year and has over 130 – 5 Star reviews on Amazon as well. It has also been translated into five different languages.

To register for the Pitching Panel, please go to: https://www.meetup.com/manhattan-inventors/events/71545732/