Bibs And Match Win Million Dollar Idea
Molly Chen is not your everyday ordinary wife and mother of two. She is an entrepreneur, inventor, marketing guru and after Monday, Sept. 8, television celebrity. It was just announced that Chen’s Bibs and Match won the Million Dollar Idea. When she heard the announcement Chen said,”I’m just so thrilled to be voted the Big Idea and a Million-Dollar-Idea at that. I can’t thank the Big Idea team enough; it’s such a great show. I hope to come back on in the near future as a huge success story!”
On Monday, Sept. 8, Chen was taped on CNBC’s popular I love the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. The show aired later that evening. Then viewers of the show voted for their favorite ‘Big Idea’ and Chen won the vote. Because of that, Chen’s Idea will be featured permanently on http://www.cnbc.com/id/26632154.
The whole thing started when Chen discovered that the products she was forced to purchase for her infants were counter to the teaching she received during her pregnancy. “They tell you to be careful about strings around your baby’s neck, and, then, they hand you a bib that ties around the neck,” said Chen. “I felt guilty every time I used a bib because I knew the tie around the neck could be dangerous.”
She went on to say that there is some weird law of physics that makes a wet bib automatically cover a baby’s face if the child is laid down. “I thought about what to do and the idea came to me to create a bib that attached only to the shirt or ‘onesie’ so there would be nothing around the baby’s neck.”
Being the entrepreneurial spirit she is, Chen proceeded to invent a solution, which she called “Bibs & Match” and then went through the exhausting effort to apply for a patent.
“That was an ordeal. I tried to save money at first, writing my own patent application, but finally contacted a lawyer that was referred to me by a friend,” said Chen. After months and several thousand dollars, she has a patent pending.
Image from Bibs and Match.
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