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New Inventors Hub website coming soon
I'm not sure if anyone has seen this yet but there is a new (crowd) Inventor website that is in Beta stage. Forgive me if this is old news somehow.

http://bit.ly/1sNUvPH

It's sounds like yet another resource I'd use to network with folks so I thought I'd pass it along.
(...and yes, right now you'd need to ask some friends to sign up as well to get ahead of the queue. If I get anymore details I'll let you know).
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raykholo - It's Quirky (https://www.quirky.com) for the [wider] masses.
9 years, 5 months ago
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vinnie90 - sooo....If you had to break it down in a sentence or two. What is it exactly? How could we use it? I never heard of something like this. Is this a place were we pair up with inventor?
9 years, 5 months ago
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bmmal - I just got in. It's Wirelessguy's link is for Inventalator. So far it seems a little limited and is essentially a place where people with ideas or products in development post them and then get feedback. I suppose you could connect with someone on there and do work for them.
9 years, 5 months ago
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vinnie90 - hmmm....interesting
9 years, 5 months ago
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wirelessguy - If someone has their own link and is waiting for access add it here in the thread.

I've yet to give Inventalator a good look but I can sum up the Quirky experience. It's a great idea in CONCEPT but I've been less than thrilled with the execution. In theory, you'd have a hard time bringing a product to market and they offer up a community plus build/prototype/test, marketing and patent, sale etc... The inventor gets 30% or more at minimum and the community (who picks color, price, name , tagline etc..) gets a percentage as well. I've been a member for a long time but the residuals made are in no way something that makes up for the time someone, other than a housewife, would devote to sitting on their site and assisting.

I came to MakeXYZ (and inventalator) b/c I have projects, development testing, distribution and some patent help but I don't have any prototyping / skills or funding (though I could get backing either via kickstarter or privately if I had something physical to show).

My hope for both MakeXYZ and Inventalator would be to find a team of people to partner with. Folks who could use my skills and connections to get products out there and in-turn help me get drawing-board ideas in to prototype form to get in front of buyers.
9 years, 5 months ago
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bdnewnan -

For a crowdfunding of new equipment see:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sintratec-world-s-first-desktop-laser-sinterer/x/9164191
See the above link to see Sintratec SLS machine. Need to buy one right away. Only 8 left at the introductory pricing. All of the makexyz community should see this machine. Brian Newnan
9 years, 4 months ago
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