Major Announcement: microFunding and
Inventique Joint Venture
I am absolutely delighted to be able to announce that
microFunding and Inventique, the Inventors' magazine, have
agreed terms to form a joint venture to create a marketplace for
the promotion of innovation.Inventique is an Inventors'
magazine founded in 2003 by its editor Frank Landamore, a
journalist and inventor, and was the vehicle of the Wessex Round
Table of Inventors (WRTI) until July 2009. It was originally
targeted exclusively at Inventors, being highly acclaimed and
widely valued. Inventique will now expand its focus from that of
being 'about inventions for inventors' to being
'about making money from inventions for everyone with an
interest in making money from inventions'.
Inventique and microFunding will provide a unique combination
of media, motivation and means designed specifically to promote
making successful new businesses from innovation. The combined
venture offers considerable highly targeted exposure for
everyone with an interest in innovation, investment in early
stage business and the success of start-up businesses.
Readership will be a mixture of Inventors, Business Angels,
other Investors, management consultants and entrepreneurs,
public bodies, incubators, entrepreneurial businesses,
universities, IPR specialists, start-up specialists, prototyping
businesses, Banks and other funders.
All new enquiries for commercialisation will be routed
through the various Introducers' websites to the microFunding®
Exchange, thereby generating a 'pressure cooker' environment for
new business creation. Advertisers will have targeted exposure
to a system specifically designed to be a new business
generation machine.
Frank Landamore will remain Editor-in-chief of Inventique,
and the magazine team will be strengthened by the recruitment of
experienced editor, publisher and journalist Mark Bibby Jackson,
and experienced sub editor Denise Smith.
Also joining the management of the venture will be Eric Lane,
the highly respected, experienced - and successful! - inventor
and entrepreneur; and Trevor Heathfield. Trevor is an
experienced Business Angel, and has himself created a number of
successful businesses including recruitment, management services
and advertising sales.
The date of first 'new' publication has yet to be set, so it
is possible that this will not be the last microFunding News:
but once the magazine is going again, it will be so much better
and cover so much more than this newsletter that I shall be very
happy to hand over the reins.
I'll keep you posted with developments and timing…
With many thanks, Good luck from
the microFunding Team
The reduced offer for posting new
inventions on
www.equityentrepreneur.co.uk is now finished: but for
news of new deals, watch this space!
microFunding has increased its fee to post an idea in order
to avoid competing with its own introducers - but -
we now have:
- 7 active introducer sites, and
- 57 new introducer web links to microFunding in progress
Introducer sites charge their own fee and provide their own
services. Why not check out the active introducer sites? Some
charge very little, while one charges as much as £200 + VAT -
but you do get a full Patent Review included in that, which is
actually extremely good value!
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