Sat 12 Jan 2008
Oh What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been: A Brief Introduction about Stephen Key
Posted by Administrator under Stephen Key: Successful Inventor and an ExpertI enjoy answering the question, “So, what do YOU do?” almost as much as my three children dread responding to it. Their dad’s nine to five defies any conventional answer - every fill-in-the-blank, every “circle the appropriate category” and “check the right box”. Hell, I’m not sure I know how to define what I do justly.
I dream creativity- I sleep, breathe, and eat creation, often to the detriment of my home life and the exasperation of my wife.
I am an inventor, a product developer and director. And there are few tasks
I haven’t undertaken to bring those creations to market and success.
I have hawked merchandise on the streets of Capitola, moved over 50 million units of product in a single year, founded the fastest growing guitar-pick company in the world, defended my designs in federal court, advised a major network channel on “American Inventor”, and packaged the totality of my life’s experiences into an eight hour seminar. I have succeeded and I have failed profoundly.
I am a motivational speaker, a mentor, a patent holder, a small business owner, a Disney licensee, a salesman, a president, and forever, a starving artist at heart.
I am a jack-of-all-trades and couldn’t have it another other way.
If this pseudo biography seems sporadic and a little random, it’s because it is. I have never held a “job”, in the typical sense anyway. My work has continued to morph and change direction over the past twenty-five years, and what I’ve written for you here is a mere slice of the adventure.
I am fifty year-old self-made man and can genuinely say, I love what I do. And now, I’m here to share that love, that passion, and the lessons I wish someone had shared with ME, with you.
I look forward to making weekly posts on PatentHelpBlog.com and I hope many of you will take the time to comment on the articles I post.
This blog post courtesy of Stephen Key’s “Invention And Product Ideas” blog on AllBusiness.com . Also note that Stephen’s inventRight.com web site gives free tele-seminars every other week.
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