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Dear [fname],
Lecture Topic:
Inventors Alliance member Bruce Lundeen will speak on Saturday, May 14th about. . . .
"The highs and lows of coming up with an idea and getting it to market.
What to do and what you definitely don't want to do!"
Bruce's Weemote kids remote control has sold over 200,000 units in stores around the country!
Speaker:Bruce Lundeen
Company:Fobis Technologies Inc.
Date:Saturday, May 14th, 2005
Cost: $15 meeting fee, no membership fees
- Agenda & Time:
- Check In - 9:15am - 9:45am
- Featured Speaker: 9:45am - 10:45am
- Networking Break: 10:45am - 11:15am
- Featured Speaker, & or Q&A: 11:15am - 12:15pm
- Adjourn 12:15pm
- Optional: Networking lunch at a local restaurant. Maps will be handed out at the end of the meeting.
Bruce Lundeen of Fobis Technologies Inc. is the inventor of the WeeMote remote control for kids among other things. http://www.weemote.com Bruce will share his knowledge of manufacturing, marketing and inventing with us.
The title of Bruce's lecture is "The highs and lows of coming up with an idea and getting it to market.
What to do and what you definitely don't want to do!"
Bruce graduated with honors from Cal Poly Pomona in electrical engineering. Until 10 years ago, Bruce had been working for large companies like Unisys and Sun Microsystems where he generally got to work on only a small part of a larger design and usually you never saw the final product.
Since then he has been working mostly as a senior design engineer/program manager that can bring products to the market for large or small companies and has helped other inventors bring their products to the market.
"If you can not afford to have an engineering staff, I can bring you a "virtual" design team that takes a product from the development stages and puts it on the retail shelves.
One of Bruce's most successful products was designed by his partner himself, it's called the "Weemote", a TV remote for kids. It was created, designed, developed and brought to market by only 2 people.
Since its introduction at the New York Toy Fair in Feb 2000, Bruce and his partner have shipped over 200,000 units. The Weemote has been sold in Target stores, specialty shops, catalogs and over the web through his web site.
Come learn from someone who has successfully brought a product to market. Bruce with share his knowledge and experiences with you on Saturday, May 14th. |
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Help Us Find Speakers |
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We need help finding speakers for our Internet Chapter, Sacramento Chapter and Bay Area Chapter.
Speakers for the Internet chapter can reside anywhere in the world since all they need is a phone to present.
Please send the name of the person and/or company, the name of the product or service and do your best to look up the phone number of the company, so we can call them and ask them to speak to the Inventors Alliance. |
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Send your speaker suggestions to speaker@InventorsAlliance.org |
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IA (Bay Area Chapter) Meeting Direcitons |
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Saturday, May 14th meeting location information
Meeting Location: AHA! Center 2121 Staunton Ct Palo Alto, CA 94306
Parking: We advise you to park a few blocks away in the parking garage behind Country Sun natural Foods located at 440 S California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306, it's a real short walk across El Camino to the AHA! Center.
Or you can park on the street near the AHA! Center if you arrive early enough and you can find a space, but don't park in the JJ&F grocery store parking lot right next door to the AHA! Center, or you will get towed!
- Yahoo Map to Parking Garage
- Walking Map >From Parking Garage to AHA! Center
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Recommended Book of the Month |
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Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors
by Evan I. Schwartz
Author of The Last Lone Inventor |
| By studying great inventors, Schwartz has identified 11 secrets of inventing which he reveals to us in the interesting and entertaining chapters of his book: 1) Creating Possibilities, 2) Pinpointing Problems, 3) Recognizing Patterns, 4) Channeling Chance, 5) Transcending Boundaries, 6) Detecting Barriers, 7) Applying Analogies, 8) Visualizing Results, 9) Embracing Failure, 10) Multiplying Insights, 11) Thinking Systematically. |
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