Kevin Lane’s Create A Castle molds give families a fun, successful and frustration-free way of building elaborate castles, towers and whatever else you can dream up, in the sand or snow! This can be achieved without struggling to use the traditional sand molds and these builds can be done quickly! We first interviewed Kevin Lane back on Episode 84. If you haven’t already listened to this episode or to learn more…please click here.
Kevin Lane and the Create A Castle Update
Kevin Lane shares what he’s been up with his Create A Castle since being interview on Episode 84 of the Invention Stories Podcast.
In this update, we ask Kevin to answer the following questions:
1:25 What is Create A Castle?
1:45 How were the sales for snow?
2:25 How did your original manufacture let you down?
3:20 Did you have concerns with manufacturing in China?
4:02 How many units in a container load and how much does one cost?
5:00 Will you run out of stock?
5:40 Are you selling into new stores?
6:45 How did were you able to demonstrate the Create A Castle at FAO Schwartz on Memorial Day Weekend?
7:40 Why are you only in 50 Wal-Mart stores?
8:30 How has your business strategy changed?
10:40 What is your biggest challenge today?
11:15 Can product be delivered to Amazon?
11:45 Do you have any anxiety about running out of stock?
13:20 What did you learn from watching your mom run her bakery?
14:50 Do you have a strategy for problem solving?
15:45 Have you thought about paying sand castle builders?
16:50 How cool has it been to invent the Create A Castle?
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Kevin Lane Work Experience
Create A Castle, LLC
Jun 2017 – Present
New Milford, CT
Create A Castle molds give families a fun, successful and frustration-free way of building elaboratecastles, towers and whatever else you can dream up, in the sand or snow, without struggling withthe traditional one dimensional sand molds!
Code Hounds, LLC
2010 – Present
New Milford, CT
Code Hounds is a web production and design studio based out of New Milford, Connecticut,founded by long time web designer and front end developer Kevin Lane. Kevin has nearly 20 yearsof experience and is connected with premier designers and developers in the industry. We love designing sites and writing code to make websites both appealing and user friendly. Keep us in mind for your next web project, let us know how we may assist you with anything you can dream up!
LifeCare
Manager
Information Architecture & Web Design
Jun 2009 – Jun 2010
Jupitermedia
Director of Site Design
Oct 1999 – Jun 2009
WebMediaBrands
Director of Site Design
1999 – 2009s
Digital Madness
Web Designer
Feb 1997 – Sep 1999
Kevin Lane Education
Western Connecticut State University
BFA
Graphic Design
1991 – 1995
Green Mountain College
Fine Arts
1989 – 1990
Additional Links
New Milford’s Create A Castle surges after TV appearance
Danbury News Times-Jul 10, 2018 An appearance on “Live with Kelly and Ryan” has sparked a busy summer for a New Milford couple. Kevin and Laurie Lane, founders of Create …
Local businesses honored at entrepreneur event
The Greater New Milford Spectrum-May 2, 2019 In the judged categories, Kevin Lane of Create A Castle won honorable mention each for Entrepreneur of the Year: Scalable Venture and …
Create A Castle: Looking at sandcastles differently
Danbury News Times-Jun 24, 2017 NEW MILFORD — Kevin Lane fished a straw out of a small mesh bag and … Create A Castle, the name of their newly formed LLC, is in its early …
Kevin Lane’s Create A Castle to Debut at Toy Fair
The Toy Book-Jan 29, 2019 The brainchild of American inventor Kevin Lane, Create A Castle aims to make it easier and faster for kids to build structures using pre-molded …
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