Category: The Kitchen Sink

  • Just Say No to More Saturday classes and 500 page books!

    Just Say No to More Saturday classes and 500 page books!

    In 2013 the US went from “first to invent” to “first to file”.  This change made time a big deal when waiting to file your patent.  While I don’t believe you should enter the inventing world light heartedly or without doing some work to learn about the process, remember that time is the enemy now…

  • Stop Chasing the $$

    Stop Chasing the $$

    You can honestly chase the money for years for an invention that you don’t even know if it will make any money.  

  • The Professional Tradeshow-The Best use of Marketing money

    The Professional Tradeshow-The Best use of Marketing money

    The Professional Tradeshow 3x’s  The only way to get attention for your product is through marketing of some kind.  And no doubt about it, marketing is always more expensive than planned.  Experience has taught me that attending a professional trade show offers the best bang for your buck.  That being said though, you should plan…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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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