You See A Cake Pan, An Entrepreneur Sees Opportunity.

Walter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison and his girlfriend were having fun tossing a popcorn lid back and forth. They soon discovered that cake pans flew better and were easier to obtain. So they started a little business selling “Flyin’ Cake Pans” on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif. In 1957 he sold the rights for his "Pluto Platter" (later known as the Frisbee) to Wham-O toys.

After completing a tour of duty in World War II where Fred learned about aeronautics, he designed a flying disc he called the Whirlo-Way and found an investor who paid for molding his design in plastic.

Today, the Frisbee can be found in the more than 45,000 sporting goods stores nationwide, ringing up sales of over $26 billion annually -- not to mention hours and hours of fun.

Small businesses are responsible for most of the innovation in the U.S. and creative entrepreneurs such as Fred provide our economy with a competitive advantage. That’s why small businesses will take the forefront in driving our economic recovery. So what’s your ground-breaking idea? Look around you. It may be right in front of you. Your opportunities are limited only by your own imagination. Learn more about taking an idea from the mind to the marketplace on SBTV.com.