http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23179103
- 3M sell billions of Post-It Notes each year but its inventors describe themselves as “comfortably off” not wealthy.
- Inventor Trevor Baylis (Wind-up radio) recently said he can no longer afford to live in his home in Twickenham, London, because despite millions of sales around the globe…
- Japanese businessman Daisuke Inoue (Karaoke machine)…He didn’t patent his invention and barely made a yen.
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