Funding Enabling Technologies

摘要

Investors have foregone enabling technology investments despite their potentials for astronomical profits. This is because they have cost more and taken longer to become profitable than innovations based on already-available technology. Learn how to repackage enabling technologies to compete against innovations, including the following how-to methods: 1. Secure the services of a good patent attorney by paying them a significant piece of the action. 2. Secure U.S. patents in one year, instead of the usual decade, using senior co-developers (ala Patent 8,788,263). 3. Find an interim CEO. 4. Plan to develop more than one product. 5. Identify and mitigate both perceived and actual risks without resorting to development. 6. Develop different novel components and products within different corporate shells. 7. Reward key personnel with stock without incurring tax liabilities. 8. Collapse development using parallel efforts and just-in-time scheduling methods. 9. Multiply the return on investment using staged committed financing. 10. Plan on selling off some corporate shells to fund others. 11. Avoid exclusive licensing deals. 12. Look for an early buy-out. 13. Make your Venture Capitalist a full member of your team.