Approach     Manifold is building a portfolio of products and companies with a focus on consumer products. Although each portfolio product will require a different approach, Manifold follows 4 basic steps in preparing a product for commercialization:
			1. Source - find or create new product/technology ideas 2. Select - decide whether they are worth pursuing 3. Develop - design, develop and engineer the product, secure patents, complete market research 4. Transfer - create a new company or license/sell the product to an established company who will commercialize the product 5. Commercialize – support the new company, licensee or acquirer as they bring the product to market
		Manifold takes full responsibility for all expenses and manpower required to develop and transfer the product or technology (steps 1 through 4). If Manifold creates a new company to commercialize the product, Manifold arranges financing, recruits a management team and takes an equity position. If Manifold transfers the product through a license, it will receive royalties through a negotiated agreement. In either situation, if the product came from an external invention source, they will participate in similar ways to Manifold, the terms of which will be negotiated on a case by case basis.