Guest post by: Neil Thompson

​​Picture this: a sleek startup event venue with dimmed lights, a stage, and an audience eagerly awaiting the pitch competition. The air is filled with a mix of excitement and nervous energy. You're a technical founder about to give your pitch. You have some misgivings, though.

​All important questions! Consider joining a group to help you answer them. 

The Teach The Geek Pitching Society is a group of technical founders who meet to hone their pitches, interact with other founders, and learn from experts that they'll need for their businesses. Investment dollars are hard to come by. Making sure that the pitch is airtight is a significant step towards company success! Learn more about the Society and join the waitlist at teachthegeek.com/pitch.

Aurora's own Dr. Ashley Sloat was also recently featured on the Teach the Geek Podcast, where we discussed her leap from academia into the patent world, what patent agents do, and public speaking in the space. Listen and learn more below.
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By: Josh Sloat

We’ve seen few entrepreneurial success stories that haven’t involved heavy doses of perseverance, grit, observation, and creative problem-solving. Today’s guest possesses these qualities in spades. And while I can’t necessarily recommend some of the more death-defying specifics of his approach … at least not without a lot of “don’t try this at home” fine print :)  … I do think that most inventors and aspiring entrepreneurs will benefit immensely from studying our guest's thoughtfully crafted, time-tested, and wildly inventive approaches to innovation and business.

Robert Cameron is the Owner and CEO of Multi Wedge – as well as the inventor of some brilliant products sold under the same name. Multi Wedge non-marring pry tools are designed to pry delicate materials without damage. These are excellent tools for woodworking, electrical wiring, delicate mechanical work, and so much more. Robert’s wedges were recently tested by SpaceEx and used in the manufacturing process of Jet Engines at G.E. Aviation. And of slightly less significance, but much closer to home, found under the Christmas trees of several of my closest relatives this past December! Robert has molded 1.3 million 3-piece sets, 3.3 million single wedges, and has been selling Multi Wedge in over 18,000 stores since 2010.

​I met Robert back in October at the US Inventor Conference in DC. I was lucky enough to bump into him over dinner when he shared his incredible story with me. It's one of the funniest and most inspiring success stories you’ll hear. Along the way, Robert and I discuss:

In this month's Mossoff Minute, Professor Adam Mossoff discusses findings from the recently published World IP Day Patent Litigation Study. This study clearly shows problems with the patent system but not the problems you typically hear from the companies that have been dominating the patent policy discussions for the past decade. Adam also highlights the importance of injunctions and damages – something we'll be discussing a lot more in segments to come. ​We’re also publishing excerpts as short-form videos on Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok.
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Patently Strategic is available on all major podcasting directories, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. We're also available on 12 other directories including Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and TuneIn, so you should be able to find us wherever you listen to podcasts.
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