In figuring profit for your invention, it is NOT just what you will make - or even what you and your investor will make. You have to consider the entire food chain - developer/prototype, to manufacturer, to wholesaler, to retailer, then to you and your investor. It is a long chain and each party takes a cut. Cost estimates have to be determined for each link:

• Determine the start-up costs to get a prototype and to prepare for and manufacture the invention
• Find comparable items in the marketplace and estimate their same costs
• Compare the comparable i
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  ke - or even what you and your investor will make. You have to consider the entire food chain - developer/prototype, to manufacturer, to wholesaler, to retailer, then to you and your investor. It is a long chain and each party takes a cut. Cost estimates have to be determined for each link:
  • Determine the start-up costs to get a prototype and to prepare for and manufacture the invention
  • Find comparable items in the marketplace and estimate their same costs
  • Compare the comparable
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    turer, to wholesaler, to retailer, then to you and your investor. It is a long chain and each party takes a cut. Cost estimates have to be determined for each link:
    • Determine the start-up costs to get a prototype and to prepare for and manufacture the invention
    • Find comparable items in the marketplace and estimate their same costs
    • Compare the comparable
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      es have to be determined for each link:
      • Determine the start-up costs to get a prototype and to prepare for and manufacture the invention
      • Find comparable items in the marketplace and estimate their same costs
      • Compare the comparable
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        ufacture the invention
      • Find comparable items in the marketplace and estimate their same costs
      • Compare the comparable item’s retail price to what your estimated retail price might be (a rule of thumb for figuring retail cost is to multiply FIVE TIMES COST OF MANUFACTURE. The opposite of this - or 20% of retail price can be used to estimate the manufacturing cost of a competitive product from it’s retail price). Your costs should not be above the competitive items unless you can show the customer more benefits.
      • Check for costs in each link of the food chain. Each link costs money: raw materials - equipment - servi