Hardcore Inventing: Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Inventions

by Ellie Crowe, Robert N. Yonover

Based on the author’s experience in the world of inventing and promotion, Hardcore Inventing offers the kind of advice you can only learn from experience: how to developing an idea into an invention, how to build a prototype for show, how to safeguard intellectual property, how to market both strategically and and in “guerilla" mode, how find investors, and much more. And all of that is based on his IP 3 “Tacitical Method” which breaks everything down to Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit.

Genres: Business

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Ellie Crowe loves to read and to write and is the author of Surfer of the Century, The Life of Duke Kahanamoku,(Lee and Low NY 2008), Hardcore Inventing, Invent, Protect, Promote and Profit (Skyhorse Publishing, NY 2009), Hawaii, A Pictorial Celebration, (Sterling Publishing NY), Exploring Lost Hawaii, Places of Power, History, Mystery and Magic, (Island Heritage, Hawaii 2003), content featured on the History Channel and the Travel Channel, and Hoku the Stargazer, The Exciting Pirate Adventure, (Island Heritage, Honolulu, Hawaii 2009), Gatorlands, Harold and the Poopy Little Puppy, The Story of Olympic Swimmer Duke Kahanamoku, I Escaped North Korea, I Escaped the World's Deadliest Shark Attack, I Escaped Amazon River Pirates.
Awards: 2008 Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature, 2008 Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance Once Upon a World Award, Carter G. Woodson Award, Texas Bluebonnet Master List 2010/2011 selection, Bank Street College Books of the Year, The Bloomsbury Review Editors Favorite, Cleveland Public Library Distinguished Children’s Biography List, Texas Women’s University Librarians’ Choice 2008, Kiriyama Notable Books 2008, BookList Best Children’s Books 2007, Five awards for literary excellence in 2004 from the Hawaii Book publishers Association, The Kahili Award in Literary Arts in 2004, 2002 Hawaii Tourism Association Award for Excellence; Starred review from School Library Journal.

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is my 15th 'audible only' free title and I've got to say, only 2 of them have been genuinely excellent, a few of the free lectures were fine, but most of these self-help books are terrible. It's possible I'm being unfair - as the genre itself suffers from some real stinkers that are best sellers - but this seems like another free offering that's worth exactly what you paid for it.

I'll give you the summary - if you invent something you should make sure it's a good idea, one you can make money off of, and you should patent it before sharing with too many people. What's that you say, those sentences seem significantly shorter than this book. Yes they do, I hopefully just saved you some time.

[johhh · Rating 3 out of 5]

For the most part, a total waste of my time. I found the writing to be mediocre, and the book to be poorly organized. And there are so many typos!! Who edited this book?! The only valuable information I obtained from this book was to keep my idea a secret until filing, because of the change from "first to invent" to "first to file" patent law.

[Jason · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stale

I wish that I had not let this book sit in my queue for so long that half the links expired.