if you have a ideal for some company can you sell it to them?

Answer 1

If you have a good enough idea, of course you can sell it. I'm no lawyer, but you might want to consider having the company you wish to negotiate with sign some sort of 'non-disclosure agreement'. This prevents them from stealing your idea. Good luck!

Answer 2

It's unlikely that a company will buy just an idea. After all, once you tell it to them, they have the idea. You can legally protect it, but then they will decide it is too expensive to try and get around that protection and forget about it.

Your best course of action is to produce either a working business around the idea, or a product they can see, and then try to sell it to them. A tangible product or service is always much more attractive to a business in the same industry, especially if they think they will be losing potential customers to you.

Answer 3

The company will more than likely try to use your idea without paying for it. Nothing wrong, it is just business. So before you present it, you may want to have some documentation (trademark, patent, copyright, intellectual rights, license, etc.). I cannot advice much past this because I don't know the nature of your idea. Find out under which one your idea falls under and then go through the necessary steps before you try to sell your idea.