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As an Inventor, you likely have experience in a particular field or in an Entrepreneurial Success Script.
The Inventor entrepreneurial types often lack the momentum, desire, and resources to get a new venture off the ground. Basically, they can talk a great line, but may find it difficult to deliver under the pressures and requirements of starting and launching a new business. Consequently, you are great in a social setting or planning situation where results or action are not the main objective. In fact, you're a wealth of new ideas, many of them excellent-but in need of a "doer". And interestingly, for this reason many an Inventor complains of having their ideas stolen by other entrepreneurs. In truth, those ideas may have simply found a better home.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Edison is considered to be one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as numerous patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He is credited with inventions that contributed to mass communication (telecommunications in particular). His advanced work in these fields was an outgrowth of his early career as a telegraph operator. Edison originated the concept and implementation of electric-power generation and distribution to homes, businesses, and factories (a crucial development in the modern industrialized world).
Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", now Edison New Jersey, by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention. Therefore, Edison is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Early on, Edison sold candy and newspapers on trains running from Port Huron to Detroit, and also sold vegetables in order to supplement his income. These were the beginnings of Edison's long streak of entrepreneurial ventures as he discovered his talents as a businessman.
It appears that as a young man he exhibited the characteristics of an Inventor entrepreneurial type, with the associated limits on his ability to start a successful new business. However, he is a classic example of how someone can leverage the talents of an Inventor into tremendous entrepreneurial success.
