How to Make Money From Your IDEAS and Inventions: 9 Steps

Some inventions save people's lives; others improve them by lightening or speeding burdensome tasks. Some creations, such as light bulbs, automobiles and space travel, even spark revolutions that forever change human history. Today, these odd-yet-simple ideas make us ask, "Why didn't I think of that?

Well, if benefit to humankind were the only means of making a profit, there would be no reality TV. As it turns out, the lucre landed by out-of-left-field innovations stacks up just as high and green as that raked in by world-shaking inventions.

In this article, we'll explore the more unusual and perplexing products of human creativity, the kind that made a ton of money.

We'll examine how they capitalized on novelty, how profitable they grew and how well or poorly some of them have aged. Print "10 Weird Inventions That Made Millions" 22 October Creative Geniuses Simple inventions to make money Mental Illness Best.

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