TW:

You should check out Stephen Key at http://www.inventright.com

He recently wrote a book called 'One Simple Idea' that talks about how to license your ideas to companies. Great book that I've mentioned before on sowpub.

He and his partner Andrew Krauss also have a mentoring program (with personal coaching) that they sell for $947. You can read about it here: http://www.inventright.com/order.shtml

I haven't purchased the mentoring course, but they have free interviews on their website where they talk to their students who have successfully licensed their ideas.

One of these you should listen to is an interview with a woman in the UK named Tara. She recently licensed her CANDY idea to a US company. That interview is here: http://www.inventright.com/tarasignup.shtml

There is also another student of theirs named Kathryn who licensed a candy idea. Her interview is here: http://www.inventright.com/kathrynsignup.shtml

The other interviews with their students are also very interesting.

Tara also has an excellent blog at http://www.ideasuploaded.com

She talks about getting her candy idea licensed here: http://ideasuploaded.com/part-5-sign...t-for-an-idea/ (that also has links to the previous four parts)

In that post, she mentions that Stephen Key actually suggests in the InventRight course that their students start with candy ideas for their first project.

Here is part of that post:

"I thought I would share my news that I recently signed my first licensing agreement. If you have read any of my previous posts you may be aware that I have been doing the Inventright course and started with the test project they suggested of candy ideas.This last stage of the project was to make contact with potential companies who might want to license my candy idea. The InventRight Course says you should do this via cold calling, but I used a mixture of cold calling (I really hated it and suck at it), LinkedIn and email contacts (when I had tried to call with no response). After going through all the licensing steps I am pleased to say I found a company interested in making my candy idea (I obviously can’t disclose any more about the idea or the company)."

So, hopefully some of those resources can help. You might need to spend a little cash for some expert advice, but you can have someone advising you that has students who have done what you want to do, and you won't have to pay a percentage to anyone - unless you want to throw me 1% of your millions when you start raking it in

Bill