Rules for Success? – Lawyers and Patent Agents
Like the poor, lawyers and patent agents will always be with us.
A Good Lawyer
This is my late wife. We were together for forty years and as she was a lawyer, she advised ne on how to deal with her profession.
But bear in mind often IPR lawyers and patent agents will burn more of your money than you could possibly believe. With Respimat, a third of a million went their way, although much of this was concerned with selling to a German company.
[English Law, Alternative Approach, Subsidising Patents]
Rules For Success? – The Internet
The Internet is the biggest advantage of today, when it comes to developing an idea.
I’m not a lover of things like Facebook and Twitter and think that they only have a marginal place in business.
But I’m all for blogging and would use it in two main ways.
In the first place, start a personal blog in both general areas and the are where you want to develop an idea. It gets you round the search engines and a blog is an ideal place to bring the important parts of your technology to one place.
And then when the venture goes live, use the blog as the web site, for internal discussions and even like here for presentations and useful sales and other techniques.
If WordPress can do it, then so can everybody else!
Rules For Success? – Alice’s R-Words
I’m now going to return to Alice Thomson’s quote.
The only thing that all successful people share is that they are robust, resilient and resourceful.
I will be adding some others; research, reliability and risk, regrets and remember.
Rules For Success? – Robust
The OED says this is someone with strong health and physique. I would add in mind as well.
[Coeliac, Broken Arm, Naples]
Rules For Success? – Resilient
I would define it as the ability to bounce-back from setbacks.
[Celia, George, Stroke]
Rules For Success? – Resourceful
I will define this, as “Thou shalt steal, but in a moral way of course”
[Cycling, History, Precedence]
Rules For Success? – Research
You can never do too much research into your venture. And I don’t just mean about how the product is put together.
When we started Artemis, one of the team visited three hundred companies, who might want to buy our proposed project management system. He did a detailed survey and this meant we changed our original plan, in ways that might have been against our joint egos. But the result was that, when the product was ready we made a few sales easily and ahead of our plan.
[Bedford]
Rules For Success? – Reliability
You need this in your team and your product. Nothing spreads like rumours of unreliability.
[Brunei]
Rules For Success? – Risk
Many claim to understand risk, but only successful gamblers, understand the true meaning.
Remember too, that creating an entrepreneurial business venture is a big risk in anybody’s understanding.
[Terimon, Insight]
Rules For Success? – Regrets
Follow Edith Piaf – Never Regret Anything!
But learn from bad experiences!
The Anonymous Widower 