Part of the Innovation Cafe series by Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor.
Transcript
Two steps to becoming an amazing inventor. Innovate. Then iterate. Then innovate. Then iterate. You go back and forth. You come up with something, you improve it. You come up with something new based on an improvement. You improve that. It’s an endless circle, even to the point where my patent lawyer is sometimes given me arbitrary deadlines like, you’re going to stop iterating now because we have to file by the end of the week. But in reality, dimensionally is that invention. Iterate on the invention. Make it amazing. Don’t say. Well, this is my first thought about it.
And that’s my final thought. That’s not how innovators work.