Shaking the money tree to finance your invention:
Good ideas don’t need a lot of your money. If you’ve created a dazzling, high-impact invention, others will be willing to invest theirs. Early on, you may use your own cash to finance your effort, but sooner or later you’re going to need a substantial infusion of cash convert your concept into a small business. This segment will unveil a broad spectrum of financing methods and possibilities you can consider. It will also disclose the essential principles that financiers will require before lending or investing.

What you will learn:
There are many forms of financing and using other people's money:

• Typical methods of early stage invention financing
• The difference between financing a patent verses financing a business
• Preparing to work with early stage Venture Capitalists
• Using loans and leases to preserve your own cash
• Partnering with suppliers
• Partnering with marketers
• Financing with payables and receivables
• Turning licensees into potential financiers
• Using options or "Letters of Intent"
• Partnering with strategic inventors
• Angels and venture capitalists
• Introduction to Government assistance