I often get asked “What if my idea gets stolen?” or “If I show my idea to a licensor or a manufacturer what prevents them from just knocking off my idea?

This fear often has crippled a product inventor’s progress to such an extent that they are still fearfully holding onto their idea and instead of their product sitting on the shelf – they are still sitting on the fence and their idea has been frozen in time.

There is a place where inventors and entrepreneurs meet each week to get the know and it's at gotinentionradio.com. Every Thursday night Brian Fried hosts a free hour Internet Radio Show for inventors and entrepreneurs to learn what they need to learn in order to move forward with their new product ideas. Each week Brian volunteers his time answering questions and has an expert guest sharing how they got a patent and got their product idea on the market. Before you go and pay someone to create a prototype for you, learn what you can do on your own to save yourself money and time.

Raymond Loewry was born in France and had his first success there at a very early age. He enlisted in the French army and became a high-ranking officer. He went to America and had only his uniform and very little money. He made his name there as the most prolific inventor. He was able to invent anything from fans to cars, railway and airoplanes. Eventually he had 170 inventions. A famous invention was the Studebakker car with the front straight across which was unheard of at that time.