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How do you sell an idea to an established company?
Maybe there's an untapped revenue source for a product that would require little to no investment from the company, and you'd like to suggest it to them while retaining credit/ownership of the idea?
As in, if I pitched an idea to a company, how do I ensure that if they use it, there's an agreed-upon payment structure and they don't just use it anyway and say fuck off?
- kwikiel 10y agoGet hired as contractor not saying first your oryginal idea but pitch them improvements on existing process
- smt88 10y agoYou don't. I've never heard of this happening.
- chrisbennet 10y agoI think it unlikely that you can get money or credit/ownership from them for an idea - at least not without spending money on patents and lawyers to enforce that patent. Basically, ideas are worthless without execution. Now if you can make a product that performs this improvement you might be able to license it to them. I created and licensed some software to a company once.
- exolymph 10y agoOwnership of an idea is not really a thing, unless it's patentable. You have zero leverage in this situation.