The Top 6 Mistakes Inventors Make. Learn the biggest mistakes you can make in the inventing process, and how you can avoid them.

For most of us, inventing a new product or starting a new business is foreign territory. And unless you have a crystal ball (and you know how to use it) it’s impossible to expect to make all the right decisions, all the time. Yet certain mistakes in the invention process are very common–I see them repeated among countless individuals who are developing and/or trying to launch their products. Fortunately, they’re mistakes that can easily be avoided if you know what to look out for.

While you can expect to make mistakes along your journey–"healthy" mistakes that you’ll learn from in the process–there are those mistakes that can completely sabotage your efforts, deplete your life savings, or cripple your confidence. These are the mistakes that can and should be avoided. Here are some of the whoppers I’ve seen along the way:

By Tamara Monosoff

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Inventors roundtable, Polson, Kalispell, Missoula-5/9-10 http://sbir.mt.gov/06workshop.asp