More Older Adults Are Becoming Inventors
nytimes.com
nytimes.com
Edison Nation you reckon?
Older people have decades of experience & knowledge. Of course they invent things nytimes. This is not a story.
Key point. It takes more than just an idea to bring an invention to market. Most inventions never get to market for the simple reason their inventors lack the business acumen and don't get the right people involved.
After inventing something the only thing you need to worry about is finding investors, patenting, finding a business person, finding a manufacturer, prototyping, safety testing, finding suppliers and coordinating it all so that you can make a profit. Most people sadly try to do it all themselves, but it takes a special kind of person to know how to do it all themselves and get it right the first time.
I think the cultural drift towards self-fulfillment of your own destiny is due to the societal move away from decades-long jobs. People no longer get a job and work it for four decades, then retire. Our cultural outlook on work has changed, as people constantly evaluate their current position and direction. And that, in turn, drives people to try new things, which results in more inventions and startups.
Oh how true. How true. I invented ToDoCal, the large format todo list / calender hybrid. My customers loved it. It sold like crap. I could never sell more than 300 a year. It was on blogs, amazon, ebay, etsy, my own store. It would not sell more than 300 units a year.
Loving a product and wanting a product are 2 different things.
The title could be written as "Greater numbers of older adults are becoming inventors"