Alamo Inventors, San Antonio, Texas

Come and learn about inventing and how to take your idea to the next level.
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Once a month, we have a meeting with a presentation about something invention related. Sometimes it's the creative part, like how someone came up with an idea. Sometimes it's the legal parts, like protection, patents, trademark, & licensing. Manufacturing comes up a lot, and so does marketing. We always enjoy our speakers, and we always learn from them. Questions are always encouraged, and our speakers share insights you can't get anywhere else. Before the meeting, you can visit with other inventors. New faces are always welcome, and if you have questions about invention or patents or marketing or ... there are usually members who can help guide you.

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Meeting Date
Wednesday, July 14, 2021 (Online - Register Here)

Pitfalls & Lessons Learned On The Napkin To Working Prototype Journey, with Todd M. Boley

Todd Boley is the President/CEO of Prototype Development Specialists + CNC Machining Inc. (www.pdsmachines.com) in Converse, TX. PDS+CNC helps customers from prototype to production making the precision machined parts that go into their products. Before taking on this new role at PDS+CNC, Todd retired from prestigious consulting company after a career assisting clients turning around troubled major construction projects through out the world and at home in the USA.

PDS+CNC works with independent inventors and leading companies to successfully negotiate this napkin to working prototype journey. Some of the companies include Xenex Disinfection Services, Renu Robotics, Plus One Robotics, Austin AI and many more coming to market soon. The journey frequently starts on a napkin or discussion in a garage. Through this journey working with independent inventors and customers, PDS+CNC has seen and worked through issues that have prolonged prototyping and development unnecessarily which made transitioning into production challenging to ramp up past the sales launch event.

Todd will share lessons learned and strategies to mitigate the typical risks and pitfalls when independent inventors work with machine shops so that their ideas can be quickly and effectively converted into functional prototypes assuring the ideas are valid and ready for licensing or for transitioning into marketable products. The lessons learned are valuable to inventors even if their invention or product does not require precision machine shop components.

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Guests are welcome.

From 6pm to 6:30pm Invention Q & A
Various topics each month.

From 6:30pm to 8:00pm Guest Speaker

Do not come to SATC, as there won't be anyone there.

Zoom Video Instructions:
Download the App or Program from zoom.us website or the app platform. There are several similar looking programs. Avoid them. It works on computers of most kinds, and tablets and phones. Please see the Youtube if this is all new to you. If you don't have a camera, that's OK. Audio is fine, and if you don't have a microphone, that's OK too. Except our hosts, everyone will be muted anyway. You can text within Zoom for questions.

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