Teen’s Invention Is Nothing But Net
When Adrian Lindsey was 12-years-old, his basketball fell out of his arms. “Me and my cousins were going to the park on our bikes”, he said. “And the basketball got lost and went out into the street”.
He took a basketball net, attached a strap and some drawstrings, and made what he calls the All-Net Sak. A basketball fits in the net, which is cinched at the bottom. Then the top of the net is secured with a drawstring. The attached strap allows the basketball to be carried on a person’s back.
With help from a famlily full of business majors, he got a patent. And now at age 16, the junior at Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy has sold more than 2-thousand All-Nets. He’s even gotten them on the shelves of Wal Mart in Cleveland Heights.
With the product retailing at just under $20, he’s looking for ways to reduce production costs, and still maintain quality. That could land him some big deals, and make a lot of people look at his All-Net and say….”Now why didn’t I think of that?”
Photo by WKYC.com.
Steve Heston on December 10th, 2007 10:35 am
Kids these days. When I was twelve, I was selling candy bars in middle school.
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