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2021 A Year in Review for Inventions
We will Recover: A New Year 2022 for Inventors It is not surprising that our economy is still struggling to recover. Just remember the empty shelves during the holiday season and the delayed shipments. Now the inflation! We haven’t seen this for decades. The pandemic declared economic war on everyone not just the inventor and…
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INVENTORS, what comes first: “the chicken or the egg”?
The Independent Comprehensive Patent Search It’s an age old question and I bet you’re wondering what a chicken or egg has to do with inventing. Well actually, nothing. But it’s the analogy that’s important here. Because many inventors are led to believe that the order in which they take certain steps doesn’t matter. That is…
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AOS Compensation Structure
We’ve previously released articles that outline how one of the advantages of investing with the AOS family funds is that there is no fee associated with doing so. And what makes that possible is that the company makes its money from the same royalties that the investor does. But that was a bit simplistic in…
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AOS Offers Unique Diversification
In previous literature we discussed that one way investments with the family funds helps to mitigate risk is by offering more diversification with the funds invested. Investments get spread across multiple inventions and not everything gets sunk in to just one idea. I wanted to take the opportunity to expand on this diversification because I…
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Why We Cap the Investment at $75K
We’ve mentioned in some of our previous literature that when an invention is approved to receive backing from the funds family, we cap the total amount we are willing to invest in any one invention at $75,000. The purpose of this article is to offer a little more information on WHY we specifically set that…
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Inventing 101 for Investors
Since the day of the cave man, we have been wired to fix a problem, to innovate our way out of trouble. After all, if you couldn’t start a fire, you didn’t eat. If you couldn’t fix a wagon on the wagon train, you got left behind. Some people innovate and some people support the…
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Meet the AOS Team and Board Members
Rita Z. Crompton – President & Chief Executive Officer Rita Crompton is the Inventor Lady and President and CEO of Archimedes’ Offspring. Rita has been working with Inventors for more than 15 years. Rita has been an entrepreneur since she was kicked out of the Girl Scouts in the 4th grade for selling too many cookies.…
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What’s In A Name?
What’s in a name? Many of you will recognize the famous line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Just like in the play, a name can carry more than just the most rudimentary meaning. A lot of consideration went in to choosing Archimedes’ as our namesake. Archimedes probably isn’t the first historical figure that comes to…
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Show Me the Money
It’s very important to understand the relationship that exists between Archimedes’ Offspring (AOS) and the Da Vinci Invention Investment Fund-I (DVIIF-I). AOS is the management company and acts as a funnel of information for the potential inventions to be presented to the board that manages the funds. The reason this relationship is so critical for…
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From Mind to Market: The AOS Process
For any potential investors interested in progressing with AOS investment opportunities, understanding the AOS process of commercializing a product is important. It’s also important to