Invention City is dedicated to giving inventors and product developers a foundation of knowledge and access to resources to achieve success in the product development process. I-City strives to maintain an environment where financial gain is won by insight, effort and risks taken wisely.
Management Team
Michael Marks – Founder & President
Mike has 25 years of experience developing, licensing, sourcing, manufacturing and marketing simple consumer products that have generated an estimated $500 million in retail sales over the past 2 decades. He's a Co-Founder/Founder of WorkTools, Inc. Endeavor Tool Company, Invention City, Accentra, 88Radio, Sandjam'R and MoreBeach.com. Successful products include: PaperPro desktop staplers, PowerShot staple guns, Gator-Grip universal sockets, Sandjam'R skimboards, Midnight Eyes Halloween lights, SqueezeDriver rotary screwdriver, Monster Hook and more. Unsuccessful products are too numerous to mention. Successful multimillion dollar patent litigation against a Fortune 500 Company? Been there. More than a dozen appearances on QVC. Done that. Produced and executed DRTV sales programs? Yes. Built prototypes, written provisional patents, filed trademarks, drafted business plans, formed companies, pitched investors, set up manufacturing, managed marketing, reviewed thousands of invention submissions...? yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Prior to founding WorkTools in 1986, Mike worked as a commercial photographer and photojournalist in New York for clients such as American Express, Nikon and Newsweek Magazine. Mike graduated Cum Laude from UCLA in 1978, Economics. Away from work he spends as much time as possible outdoors and enjoys surfing, sailing, backpacking and time with his family.
Joel Marks – Senior Inventor
Since the time he could walk, Joel has been inquiring into how things work and how they could be made to work better and more intuitively. As co-founder and chief product designer of WorkTools, Inc., Endeavor Tool Company and Accentra, he has conceived, engineered and designed several award-winning products. In 1999 he was honored with a Gold Design of the Decade Award from IDSA/Business Week for his work on the Black & Decker PowerShot® staple gun (an award shared by the Apple iMac and VW Beetle). His latest success is the PaperPro line of desktop staplers that is taking the office products world by storm - it sold over 1,000,000 units in its first year of production! Joel has over 75 US patents issued in his name. A 1982 Engineering graduate of UCLA, Joel was formerly employed by TRW in its Spacecraft Engineering Division, where his primary responsibilities were precision fabrication and assembly of spacecraft hardware and the design and management of product tests.
Brad Golstein - Vice President Legal and Business Affairs
Brad manages the growing Intellectual property portfolio at WorkTools, Inc. where he has primary responsibility for financial and legal affairs. He is a co-founder of Endeavor Tool Company and Accentra. Brad has the rare combination of a good legal mind seasoned by real business experience. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley with a degree in History in 1980 and then received both a JD and MBA from UCLA in 1984. He practiced law for several years representing clients such as Weyerhauser, JVC Entertainment, The SoftwareToolworks and others. Brad joined Mike and Joel to found WorkTools in 1986.
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Help I dont have alot of money but i have several ideas that i would like to become a reality. I cant stop inventing and just need help financially. |
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