ATTRACTING INVESTORS & FUNDING FOR INVENTORS & START-UPS 12/9/09

Greetings inventors!
The next TBIC meeting will be a special one as we will hold a panel of speakers who's focus will be all about getting money behind your innovations! This is a great way to end the year and get you prepared for launching next year! Andoni Lizardy will host one of his BOSS sessions with three distinguished panelists. Joining us will be Tina Fischer, Business Editor and expert on Organization and Process Management, Joel Lopez, the Managing Director of 2Z Consulting Inc., and John Morrow, President of Morrow Consultants, LLC.

Tina Fischer founded Your Business Editor to help business owners and executives create predictable, productive, and profitable businesses by applying corporate best practices. Tina guides her clients in improving communication and quality through better processes and well-documented policies and procedures.

Joel Lopez is a non-practicing attorney and has over 15 years experience in legal, executive, marketing and strategy related positions. He has taught courses on internet law as well as other courses for Georgia State University, Emory and Kennesaw State University. Mr. Lopez has extensive experience in strategic planning, emerging technologies and business development.

Over the past three decades, John Morrow has started and grown a number of technology companies. In 2006 John founded Morrow Consultants, a strategic management consulting firm that helps clients understand their future. John works with each client to develop a response to the factors they have control over, as well as the forces they can't control.

This will be a real barn-burner of a meeting that will help you start thinking of your business as more than just a novel idea. Make sure that you get here early for the December 9th meeting scheduled from 7 to 9pm. This will be our last meeting in 2009 and a great kick off towards 2010!
See you there!

Wednesday, 11/11/09 meeting

Greetings TBIC fans,
We had a real treat at our last meeting and will follow up with another great presentation. This Wednesday, we will be visited by the industrial design team from ROBRADY Design. Robrady Design is a premier prototype facility located in Sarasota and is involved in the creation of some amazing products. They are able to take a simple concept and bring it to life, ready for the market. Additionally, they have a capitalization branch to assist in the the finance and development of new products. Come to this meeting, our only one for the month of November, and connect with some of the best in class when it comes to product design!
Our next meeting won't be until December 9th so don't miss out! We will also finalize the schedule for those who want to present their products on Saturday, 11/14 for Worldwide TV Products. They will evaluate inventor's innovations and may offer to help bring them to the Home Shopping Network.
I look forward to seeing you all at this meeting!