Proof that you can still invent stuff and make millions

**nap** · 11-05-2003, 08:15 PM

thanks for this article. i really was needing something like this right about now

**xenigo** · 11-05-2003, 08:18 PM

Interesting invention, considering it wasn't really the invention that was so brilliant... it was the mass-market appeal of being so cheap.

**TheFLY** · 11-05-2003, 08:19 PM

What's cool now is you can sell your inventions direct online

**TheFLY** · 11-05-2003, 08:19 PM

in the old days you sold out to SEARS or somebody for like 2% of the profits...

now just sell on ebay

**BRISK** · 11-05-2003, 08:20 PM

Originally posted by nap
thanks for this article. i really was needing something like this right about now

It's nice to read a story about someone who actually invents something of value as opposed to someone who gets a patent for something they never invented (Acacia).

**maxjohan** · 11-05-2003, 08:20 PM

Originally posted by BRISK
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/i...Article&ID=870

John Osher and several partners developed the SpinBrush in 1999 and then, in 2001, sold it to Procter & Gamble for $475 million

good article..enough said, back to making millions

**fletcher** · 11-05-2003, 08:34 PM

"Osher?s own career path zigged and zagged. He jokes that it began, at age 5, in pornography. His parents ? Dad was a surgeon; mom, a writer ? took a painting course at the local art museum in his hometown of Cincinnati, and the curriculum including painting nudes. At the semester?s end, they stashed their works in the attic. Osher charged his friends a nickel each to see them. Later, he sold defective squirt guns for a dime each."

Hahaha.

**BRISK** · 11-05-2003, 08:37 PM

Originally posted by maxjohan
back to making millions

Good idea

**nap** · 11-05-2003, 08:38 PM

Originally posted by fletcher
"Osher?s own career path zigged and zagged. He jokes that it began, at age 5, in pornography. His parents ? Dad was a surgeon; mom, a writer ? took a painting course at the local art museum in his hometown of Cincinnati, and the curriculum including painting nudes. At the semester?s end, they stashed their works in the attic. Osher charged his friends a nickel each to see them. Later, he sold defective squirt guns for a dime each."

Hahaha.

i used to sell condoms that i got from the dollar store(12 in a pack) for 1 dollar a piece in middle school(catholic private school). i made a killing until the principal found out and they called me parents up for a conference

**LiveDose** · 11-05-2003, 09:01 PM

Originally posted by BRISK

It's nice to read a story about someone who actually invents something of value as opposed to someone who gets a patent for something they never invented (Acacia).

true dat. fuckers.

**brizzad** · 11-05-2003, 09:12 PM

damn that was long

but really interesting

**nosey** · 11-05-2003, 09:13 PM

good article

**BRISK** · 11-05-2003, 09:14 PM

Originally posted by brizzad
damn that was long

but really interesting

**Eve** · 11-05-2003, 09:15 PM

Originally posted by nap

i used to sell condoms that i got from the dollar store(12 in a pack) for 1 dollar a piece in middle school(catholic private school). i made a killing until the principal found out and they called me parents up for a conference

goddamn, i did the same thing...

weird

**VeriSexy** · 11-05-2003, 09:23 PM

Originally posted by BRISK
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/i...Article&ID=870

John Osher and several partners developed the SpinBrush in 1999 and then, in 2001, sold it to Procter & Gamble for $475 million

Good reading

Proof that you can still invent stuff and make millions

Proof that you can still invent stuff and make millions

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