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Davison Design & Development
by Mike Marks
If you’ve been researching invention service companies, you’ve likely come across Davison Design & Development. I'm proud to have Davison as a sponsor of Invention City. Here's why:
Company founder George Davison is channeling the manufacturing and creative processes of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Walt Disney, to deliver amazingly inexpensive, high quality, custom invention development services. The services and prices are good enough that I recommend Davison to all of the companies I work with. In making this recommendation my own reputation and professional relationships are at stake. Therefore I take it very seriously.
Davison provides a great service at an incredibly low price. I believe Davison is fundamentally changing the way inventions are developed. They use mass production techniques to provide inexpensive, customized, invention development services.
Some inventors think that Davison’s rates of about $10,000 are high. My own company, WorkTools, Inc., estimates that the total cost for developing an idea into a handheld or desktop mechanical product that can be licensed (prototype engineered for production, provisional patent) is somewhere between $50,000 to $150,000. WorkTools’ batting average with inventions is around 40%*. That means 60% of the time, WorkTools loses $50,000 to $150,000 pursuing an invention that fails. Using Davison WorkTools could save tens of thousands of dollars and have the added benefit of improvements contributed by professional designers who take a fresh look at the invention. With Davison we'll be able to reduce design and prototype costs while increasing the odds for commercial success. That's why WorkTools is using Davison for its future projects.
You should carefully and honestly consider the true market potential of your invention before investing serious time, emotion and money into it. Then, if you honestly believe there is indeed great market potential, you should have a prototype built. A prototype will enable you to pursue a licensing deal like a professional. And when it comes time to build that prototype I suggest you consider Davison Design & Development. I am unaware of any company that provides so much value for so little money.
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If you have any thoughts or comments, please feel free to contact me at mike@inventioncity.com. I’ll read everything sent and will try, schedule permitting, to personally respond.
* WorkTools' success rate of 40% is much higher than the success rate for inventions in general (success means we at least cover the development and patent costs and then a little more). The average rate of commercial success for patented inventions is far below 1%. There are two reasons WorkTools is so successful: 1) we do everything possible to confirm there's a great market for the invention before we start investing in it and 2) Lead Inventor Joel Marks invents from the ground up, always asking himself how the invention can be manufactured for the lowest possible price while delivering the best possible performance. In general our successes have come not from inventing something totally new, but rather from improving upon existing old technology.
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