Invent, Innovate & Prosper
You don’t need to be lucky, or a genius, to create a successful invention. You just need a clear process to spark ideas and bring them to market.
Michael G. Colburn is an inventor. He wasn’t always, but he made himself into one. He’s spent the last four decades building multi-million dollar businesses around his inventions, and in that time, he’s realized a powerful truth: Inventing is a skill anyone can master.
Michael’s success was not an accident. With every invention, he followed a clear process for finding an idea, researching, testing, and bringing it to market. Along the way, Michael studied history’s great creators and realized their processes were not very different from his. Artists, writers, inventors, entrepreneurs—they all follow a similar method for bringing ideas to life. We just so rarely get to see it.
Invent, Innovate, and Prosper is a practical handbook for inventing based on Michael’s decades of work as a successful inventor. He shares his step-by-step system for launching profitable inventions, along with the surprising real-life lessons that helped him thrive. You’ll learn how to:
Adopt a detective’s mindset to find invention ideas in everyday life
Research your idea’s viability and troubleshoot glitches
Design, engineer, and build prototypes with minimal financial investment
Prepare and test your products for the market
Navigate logistics like funding, patents, contracts, and distribution
Michael also profiles some of the world’s most prolific inventors, from Alexander Graham Bell to Lori Greiner, and offers legal templates to get you started. Whether you’re already a maker or are just starting to brainstorm new products, you’ll discover how to turn the kernel of an idea into a lucrative invention.
Check out the below audio clip featuring INVENT, INNOVATE & PROSPER’s Introduction and First Chapter:
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Reviews
Michael Colburn’s new self-help guide helps inventors pull those gruesome details out of the brain and puts readers on a journey to creating their inventions. His simple, yet professional tone encourages faith and makes technical phrasing and legal terms easy to understand. His book covers the basics from putting the ideas on paper, securing legal protections, and preparing for the next invention. Anyone who wants to put their new creation on the market or simply pull some ideas out of the cobwebs should read this book.
The author, Michael G. Colburn, who is also the founder of Ideas Well Done, has put together a nifty guide for anyone involved in any step of the inventing process. The background and history of inventions, as well as the intriguing excerpts, The Kernal of Inventions, apply to today’s reader and is not just a recap for the sake of looking back. The action steps throughout the stages are highly practical showing how multi-dimensional the process of inventing is. I was fascinated by the section when Colburn addresses how to intentionally have Cooperative Mind Functioning, especially while tapping into the endless imaginations of the creative right brain. I have a friend who is in the beginning stages of inventing a product. I highly recommend Colburn’s book to her and anyone in this field! Invent, Innovate & Prosper will help individuals gain a solid overview and foundation to their inventing process.