About

MICHAEL G. COLBURN has spent more than 45 years founding and
running businesses based on creativity and design. He is most proud of
the fact that former key employees purchased and still run some of
these businesses or have founded their own. In 2005, he and his wife,
Mary Esther Treat, launched Ideas Well Done, a firm that focuses exclusively
on inventing new products and bringing them to the marketplace.
Since then, Michael has created over 25 inventions and has patents issued
in multiple countries.
Ideas Well Done was sold to longtime employee Steve Bogner in
2013 and is still thriving today.
Michael and Mary Esther live in Vermont and enjoy being close to
family, cross-country skiing in winter, and long-distance walking in
summer and spring.

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