Here at Kiva, Light Up a Fire the holidays can be a busy time, but we make sure to pause and reflect on what makes us thankful. We always come back to Kiva borrowers, who inspire with their enterpreneurial spirit, and to lenders like you, who light up the lives of so many with opportunity. It’s been a year of challenges for many borrowers – from natural disasters to political
When I shared my first ‘big’ idea with my Silicon Valley patent attorneys, they absolutely loved it. I would never be able to count all the income it would generate me, I remember them saying. So, per their recommendation, I agreed to pay a Washington D.C. firm nearly $2,000 to search for prior art — meaning existing patents, primarily — on my concept of a rotating label. Was this a
The Chicago inventors’ organization (CIO) is a non-profit organization whose vision includes being the premier provider of positive, affordable, credible resources to inventors whose products range across all markets including digital apps. Recognized by the US patent and Trademark office, our organization of its kind in the Chicagoland area. Our previous conferences have been attended by more than 2,000 people with presenters from Los Angeles, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Chicago.
Android Apps and Its Future In 2017, apps of the Android keep on evolving to keep up with the competition and meet with people’s expectations with their phones. Looking forward through 2020, they must plan ahead on how the market for Androids and their apps will flow in order to stay one step ahead. There have radically new ways to improve key features in messaging, security, and (third topic).
Online Marketing Online Marketing is essential in this day and age and something most successful businesses are taking advantage of. Today technology controls so much of our day and really our lives. Gone are the days of phone books and newspapers. Instead we have google, online news, and craigslist. Most of our social interactions and business networking is done online, and we are having less and less human interaction.
Branding is something that every business or entity needs to do if they want to get their name out there. Your brand makes you unique and recognizable. It’s who you are as a company. In one fell swoop it lets people know if you are reliable, experienced, costs of your products etc. Think about Target for example. Their brand is that they are your store for everything of quality,
What is SEO? When you have something online, be it an article, a notification, a business, etc., you want people to be able to find it just by searching for it. Now you may think that this is something as simple as creting the page and it can easily be found, but that’s not really the case. What you do end up using is SEO, which stands for Search
3D Prototyping What was once an unrealistic goal is now reality-3d prototyping? That’s right. There are now printers on the market that allow you to print 3d models for prototyping a variety of different things. But what does this mean, and how can this be useful? Well let’s say someone comes up with a concept or design idea for a new product. The first step would be to determine
The importance of having a patent search done by a professional as opposed to doing it yourself Have you come up with new inventions and now you are worried about licensing? If so, you are one of many inventors facing this issue. For the sake of the understanding of all readers, let’s first discuss what patents are. A patent is a license, given by an authority to an inventor,
Invention is at the core of humanity and has been a part of advancements since our ancestors first walked the world. Developing things into a mass marketing phenomenon, however, can be attributed to the market and demand. If you think you have a great idea, you no doubt want to see it take off. But now that you have this idea for an invention, where do you begin? The