How did you begin to get the WeeMinder Potty Training Kit developed? Wow! That is a good question. We actually had a hard time finding someone who could engineer the potty training timer and potty song for under $40,000 (just to engineer the chip). I was shocked. I thought, "Hey, it's the year 2000, how hard can it be!" Right!
Well, we were able to work with a local illustrator, who was a friend from church, great guy, Jesse Pierpoint, and our cheerleader's Joel and Debbie Hendrickson (Weldon) helped us produce the potty song and WeeMinder DVD. Then, we were pretty much at a standstill until a friend of Debbie's mother in California, who had an inventing brother, agreed to help us. Since we could not pay anyone much other than supplies to do all of this, it took literally years to get the WeMinder Potty Training Kit (our first product) to market! We are still having to move much slower than desired because of the common business problem-lack of cash flow. Lord, help us!
As for the business plan and license, I learned on my own via Internet and books from the library. I have not paid a cent to an attorney and have been lucky enough to get free legal advice so far.
Our local business development center has been helpful and friends and family have helped us along the way. Even though we have done it slow, it has been EXPENSIVE. We have made mistakes and we would do things differently next time. But all in all we have learned a lot and are glad we took this leap of faith to bring our WeeMinder Potty Training Kit to market and we pray and believe that we see profit soon!
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