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Join the Mom Invented Family by Entering our Arizona Invention Challenge!
Anna’s Linens and Mom Invented have launched a new product search for Arizona moms! For the first time, Anna’s Linens has teamed up with us to set out in search of the next great product — invented by you. We’re looking for you to submit your most creative product ideas for a chance to see [...]
Mom Entrepreneur Shares Secrets to Licensing Success
As a single mom with no college education working three jobs, Darla Phillips seemed an unlikely candidate for business success in 1997, but her ideas were strong and she was driven to build a better life for her daughter. It took a lot of perseverance and learning things the hard way, but 12 years later, [...]
Mom of 2 Invents a New Baby Product in Her Dreams
The idea for Hugga-Bébé came to Kimberly Davis in two very vivid dreams. First she dreamed about her nephew being swallowed up by his activity center, then the next night she dreamed about exactly how to create a product that would help support him properly. By day three, Kimberly, who had never sewn before, had [...]
Mom Inventor Gets $50,000 on ‘Shark Tank’
If you were offered $50,000 for a 55% stake in your business on a national TV show, would you take it? Watching Tiffany Krummins mull over the offer from real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran on Sunday night’s episode of Shark Tank, it was tough to tell what she was going to decide. But after a [...]
Mom of 4 Brings 2 Product Lines to Market in 2 Years
With four young children, Kristi Gorinas felt like she had something to add to the baby products market. Though her first idea, the Grow & Go Seat, is launching this fall, while it was in development she conceived a purse-diaper bag hybrid that beat her first product to market. The Kristi G Company’s elegant handbags’ [...]
Sisters Find That Drying Out Electronics Is Their Bag
Struggling with hearing loss since she was a baby, Karen Wildman (left) knew a lot about drying out hearing aids from sweat, rain and other moisture. But when she realized she could apply her drying technique to other small electronics and started saving her children’s and friends’ gadgets, she knew she was on to a [...]
New Undershirt Makes Nursing Moms More Comfortable
Amy Maschue felt self-conscious about inadvertently showing her midsection while breastfeeding in public. Unimpressed by the nursing shirts and tank tops on the market, she started making her own deeply scooped undershirts that would keep her stomach and back under wraps while feeding her baby — and fit under her normal clothing. Once other moms [...]
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