Conversations With A Genius- Fun Small Business Talk

Today's guest is Chris Hawker, the Founder of Trident Design, LLC, located in Columbus, Ohio. They focus on inventing cool products and bringing them to market. Trident works on developing their own internally generated ideas, as well as assisting everyday people, startups, and established companies with their ideas. Chris is a lifelong inventor and entrepreneur, and has helped over 100 innovative and unique entrepreneurs to bring their products to market, including the Onion Goggles, the PowerSquid, The and the Coolest Cooler. Today we are going to talk about spotting a good opportunity, developing a compelling prototype, intellectual property, getting things made, licensing and crowdfunding. In today's conversation we discuss: How the invention process really works Why there is no such thing as a million dollar idea The biggest mistake people make when going from idea to product