Best of luck with your book Bill great to see someone bright and talented getting a shot at success

I met a guy once who told me he’d invented a revolutionary new type of rocket engine. He wrote to NASA and offered to sell them the idea but he never heard back from them. He showed me his ‘plans’ which were like something a ten year old would draw.
Complete nutter – hope this guy is more sane…

Putting an idea together that works and works for 1,000′s can be heartbreaking and very costly. I have done it and am still trying to get it out there properly. One needs a huge amount of money between prototypes, manufacturing, legal fees etc. etc. etc. Never stops. Nothing to do with good business mind. One has the intellengence to invent but may not have the business mind to get it out there. Whatever the invention is it needs a huge amount of PR and money.

Even though one is driving around the country selling it to parents directly is great but schools, Mininster for Education can be terribly slow to accept., seemingly not wanting to be seen to ‘endorse’ ones product, even though it’s a great invention, has been proven to work, is a new start up Irish business, that can, could, will be worldwide! The determinatiion of that inventor keeps it going because of the sadness and loss they felt in their own school days, they don’t want others to loose their dream! http://www.readassist.ie

Great read, in stitches with lots of it the way he writes it. love this type of stuff, some of the ideas are mad and some make you say that’s clever how come it’s not out their. Creativity comes out of madness, great stuff.

@ Cavan

Done that, been there! It is an ongoing marketing process. Have a good few stores on board, but am hitting brick wall with educational syslem. Heading to Northern Ireland and UK. There are over 90,000 people with some type of dyslexia in ireland and over 4million in the UK. Unless one gets backing from a prominent person in media, Government it’s a hard slog.

People like these should have all the help and encouragement, they need to get them up and running.
The government gives millions of taxpayers euros to foreign multinational companies who shut up shop and move out as son as another country drops their tax a half percent. Native start ups could go a long way in getting this country working. It’s worth a try!

Kind of pointless now. Since he disclosed all his ideas without any IP protection first, anyone wanting to develop his ‘ideas’ won’t be able to patent them. Without a patent it’s going to be hard for anyone to secure investment for a business.

@Heywood Jablome & Stephen

I was on Dragons’ Den in March, 2011. They all seemed to like it but didn’t give me the investment. I had already developed, patented, and manufactured it and was selling it at the time. What I needed from them was help with marketing/selling, connections. Norah Casey did a couple of articles in her magazines for me and Sean Gallagher said he’d be my “Brand Ambassador”! This entailed meeting me in the reception of a hotel. His colleague took a loan of my son’s ifon. Did a 2 minute recording of both of us holding the Readassist and that was it. I have since then deleted it from my website!

Thanks Stephen. There are so many kids out there that just need that little bit of help, encouragement and confidence and that’s what the Readassist gives. I have driven around the country trying to get it into book stores/school supplies for the past 2 years. I now have about 38 stores on board. They are slow to take it on because the Dep. Of Edu. Have not told them about it. I wrote to Mins. Quinn asking him to help me get it to the children especially the schools that had lost their special needs teachers. He wrote back telling me he couldn’t be seen to be ‘endorsing’ a product! Sad really, especially when it works. I am going to fly to the UK where there are over 4 million people with dyslexia and try and sell it there also.