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Cassie Quinn was fed up. The 28-year-old mother of one was sickof digging through her diaper bag to find things. "Whycan't someone design a diaper bag so all the little items areeasy to find?" she thought. Then she thought, "Whycouldn't that someone be me?"
The Spokane, Washington, inventor sketched her concept on paper,produced a prototype, enlisted the help of an invention marketingspecialist, and ended up licensing her idea to Kalencom Corp., aNew Orleans company that sells baby accessories. In late October1998, Kalencom introduced Quinn's product with much fanfare atthe Juvenile Manufacturers Product Association convention inDallas.
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