SOME OF OUR SUCCESSES:
Turbo-Wash®
Car Cleaner
$240,000,000
Airline Entertainment Headsets
60,000,000 Units
Heart-Mate™ Exercycle™
$30,000,000
Casablanca™ Ceiling Fans
$300,000,000
Fast Track™ Motorized Tie Rack
$60,000,000
Perfect Order™ Drawer Organizer
$12,000,000
Sankin™ Dental Chair
$8,000,000
Ronco® Food Dehydrator
$180,000,000
Herbal Brands™
$16,000,000
Grabbin' Grasshoppers™
$14,000,000
Tribbles™, Star Trek®
1,000,000 Units
The Petster™
$50,000,000
US Air Force Night Vision Gamma Camera
$5,000,000
FoodSaver® II
$30,000,000
The Playskool® Baby Monitor
$150,000,000
Neopower & Magno Sword
1,000,000 Units
Triazzle®
Puzzles and Brainteasers
$1,200,000
SplashGuard™
7,000,000 Units
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| More than $1.5 Billion in Retail Sales
With products sold in more than 50,000 outlets nationwide and more than $1.5 billion in retail sales, the managers of America Invents have the experience to get your product to market. Here you will find a short list of products our team has designed, marketed and/or licensed. Does your idea belong in the company of these well-known products?
William Seidel, CEO and President
Mr. Seidel has 30 years of experience as an authority and lecturer on marketing and innovation. He has worked in senior management positions with leading corporations to develop and market brand name products. During his career he worked with great entrepreneurs (founder of Atari) and leading innovators (co-founder of the Infomercial Industry). And he worked with marketing gurus, visionary business minds, international speakers and leading authors. He also executed license agreements with leading corporations and the US Air Force. He has consulted with the
National Laboratories on technology commercialization, co-authored Commercializing Federal Laboratory Technology, served as a court-approved expert witness for product and marketing litigation and addressed the California Senate on direct marketing issues.
For more than fifteen years, he was a lecturer on the topics of marketing, entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote and instituted Entrepreneurship & Innovation and wrote and established the Berkeley Study Program in Direct Marketing. Prior to Berkeley, he taught Product Design and Product Development at San Francisco State University for five years. He is a speaker and workshop leader throughout the country for the Innovation Conferences sponsored by the Licensing Executive Society, the US Patent Office, leading universities and government organizations.
His favorite products are many including:
Dean Kamen's Segway rethinks short distance transportation and changes the way we do the things we do. Though the technology is brilliant the product and marketing fell far short of the planned sales.
Jacques Cousteau was a prolific inventor and holds 16 patents including the Aqua Lung (now called SCUBA).
Joe Pedott's Chia Pet, not because the product is great but because his marketing is absolutely brilliant.
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Kris Hudgens, Executive VP, Licensing
Mr. Hudgens has structured and negotiated hundreds of sales and licensing agreements with an average royalty rate of 8%. He has also sold products into catalog and retail accounts and has helped set up distribution for clients. Kris approaches each client with an open mind, starting with manufacturing and proceeding on to distribution, marketing and sales. By understanding the entire product development process, Kris is able to structure the best deal possible for each client.
Kris began his licensing work with Sinia Inc. (funded by Nokia Ventures and acquired by FusionOne) where he developed the pricing and licensing model for their innovative wireless software. Kris also worked with within FedEx's new business strategy department and with Vanderbilt University's Technology Transfer Department.
Kris began his career in the engineering and construction industry. He has consulted with more than 250 businesses in the US and Canada in the areas of supply chain management, operations and quality control. Kris was the lead designer on the WorldCom telecommunication infrastructure build-out in the US. Kris participated in GTE's (now Verizon Wireless) rollout of their digital wireless network in the Southeast. Kris studied innovation and entrepreneurship while obtaining his MBA at Vanderbilt University. His undergraduate degree is in engineering, also from Vanderbilt University.
Kris' favorite invention: The Toothbrush
"Those of us here (at MIT) know the simple things are very, very important," said Merton Flemings, an inventor with 29 patents to his name who runs the Lemelson-MIT Index. "It surprises us other people who are not scientists recognize that too."
James Dyson's revolutionary Dyson Bagless, Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner is an example of brilliant design commercially succeeding and changing the industry. Then Dyson out did himself by inventing the Dyson Ball that revolutionized the vacuum again.
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