Nancy Tedeschi - Inventor of the SnapIt Screw
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Nancy Tedeschi is an entrepreneur and the award-winning inventor of SnapIt Screw™, a stainless screw that comes with an extension that snaps off, is less than an inch long, can be twisted by hand and works from the top or bottom of the eye glasses---a time saving solution to eye glass repair.
Tedeschi brought her eye glass repair screw invention from concept to the global market with little outside help. Today, SnapIt Screw™ is sold in major retail stores throughout the United States, including Walmart and Office Depot. To date, Tedeschi’s company, Eyeego, LLC, has sold over five million screws and 400,000 eye glass repair kits, which include the screw, to the consumer retail market. After bringing SnapIt Screw™ to the retail market, Tedeschi has licensed her product in the United States to one of the largest optical distributors in the world and is currently duplicating her licensing efforts in multiple countries where she holds more than twenty five patents.
After licensing her rights to Essilor in the USA, Tedeschi wasn’t finished. Being semi retired In 2018, she started playing pickleball, after having no luck finding any pickleball clothing, she came out of retirement and created her own. She launched the first labeled pickleball clothing line in the world and is watching the sport and her company grow. She is on the board of directors at Stetson University’s Entrepreneur program and enjoys helping the students learn how to become great entrepreneurs.
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